By Dino-Ray Ramos
27.05.2020 - 23:37 / deadline.com
By Patrick Hipes
Executive Managing Editor
SpaceX’s historic launch of its crewed Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station planned for Wednesday has been postponed because of weather problems. The mission was scrubbed with 16 minutes, 54 seconds left on the countdown at Cape Canaveral, FL.
Launch director Mike Taylor announced the scrub, after what amounted to a great practice run, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley already on board and liquid oxygen and fuel partially
By Dino-Ray Ramos
A pair of astronauts have been propelled into space after the historic SpaceX rocket launch went ahead this evening.
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are all suited up while saying goodbye to their families ahead of the NASA & SpaceX rocket launch on Saturday (May 30) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Update 5/30 11 a.m. ET: The SpaceX/NASA launch is scheduled for Saturday, May 30 at 3:22 p.m. ET, barring any changes. You can watch a live stream of the launch on NASA's YouTube channel or on its website, or on SpaceX's YouTube channel. If today's launch is scrubbed, they'll try again tomorrow at 3 p.m. ET.
By Brian Steinberg
Even though Wednesday's (May 27) SpaceX mission was a bust, Kelly Clarkson still crushed an inspiring version of the National Anthem a few hours before the scrubbed launch.
There were a lot of bummed-out people on Wednesday (May 28) when the historic SpaceX launch at Cape Canaveral was scrubbed at the last minute due to uncooperative weather. The capsule that was slated to take off from its Florida launch pad carrying two NASA astronauts would have been the first crewed space flight to launch from U.S. soil in nearly a decade since the mothballing of the space shuttle fleet in 2011. Spaceheads across the country