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2 astronauts suit up for historic launch of SpaceX rocket

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Despite more storms in the forecast, two NASA astronauts suited up Saturday for a history-making launch into orbit aboard a rocket ship designed and built by Elon Musk's SpaceX company.

With the flight already delayed three days by bad weather, forecasters put the odds of acceptable conditions at 50-50 for the 3:22 p.m.

liftoff of the Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket in what would be the first launch of astronauts into orbit by a private company.

It would also be NASA's first human spaceflight from U.S. soil in nearly a decade. Astronauts will ride aboard the vessel in the first manned U.S.

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