NASA’s live television coverage of the first human spaceflight to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in nearly nine years will include features familiar to launch viewers, and new camera views to document the historic flight of astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken boarded a Crew Dragon spacecraft on top of a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday for a launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but stormy weather kept the flight grounded. The next opportunity to launch the first crewed mission since 2011 from the Florida spaceport is scheduled for Saturday at 3:22 p.m. EDT (1922 GMT).
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.
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