Lloyd Sowers reports CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Bad weather in the Atlantic has postponed the highly anticipated SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral.
Two NASA astronauts were set to launch from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday afternoon, but instead of a NASA rocket or shuttle, they sat in a capsule atop a privately owned and designed rocket for the first time. Related: Historic SpaceX launch scrubbed due to weather Veteran space travelers Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken hoped to end the longest spaceflight gap in U.S.
history with a 4:33 p.m. liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but inclement weather pushed the Demo-2 mission's launch opportunity to the weekend.