The countdown began this morning for the launch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Dragon Demo-2, a mission that will send NASA astronauts into space from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.
The craft was set to launch today at 4:33 p.m. EST.
American astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and fly to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. The last such launch came in July 2011 and became the final mission of NASA’s space shuttle program.
Unfortunately the launch was scrubbed at around t-minus 17 minutes due to bad weather.
The backup launch day is Saturday, May 30th at 3:22 PM ET.
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