CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - If SpaceX and NASA are going to make history with a launch from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, they’re going to have to beat the odds.
Meteorologists still say there is only a 50-percent chance of acceptable weather for the second Demo-2 launch attempt. Two NASA astronauts are ready to make history with the first crewed launch from American soil since 2011.
The space agency has been buying seats aboard Russian rockets until private companies were ready to take over the job of ferrying crews to the space station. RELATED: Cleared for historic launch, SpaceX likely to win out-of-this-world ‘capture the flag’ race The crew-carrying version of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule made a successful automated flight last year; now