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Antares Launcher
Photos: Antares rocket blasts off from Eastern Shore of Virginia
Falcon 9
SpaceX crew launch comes with new weather constraints for downrange aborts
Mission managers will be closely monitoring the weather for the first launch of astronauts aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, not just around the Kennedy Space Center, but along a corridor stretching thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean in case the crew capsule has to escape from its Falcon 9 rocket during the climb into orbit.