SpaceX aimed for a Sunday night launch of four astronauts to the International Space Station, although the prospects of good weather were just 50-50 and its leader was sidelined by COVID-19.Vice-President Mike Pence was expected at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the long-awaited start of regular crew rotations aboard privately owned and operated capsules.
It also marked only the second time in nearly a decade that astronauts were set to rocket into orbit from the U.S.“Game day!” tweeted NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, the crew commander.