Lloyd Sowers reports CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After nearly nine years, it’s once again launch day in America.
Two NASA astronauts are set to launch from Kennedy Space Center this afternoon, but instead of a NASA rocket or shuttle, they’ll be riding atop a privately owned and designed rocket for the first time.
Veteran space travelers Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken hope to end the longest spaceflight gap in U.S. history with a 4:33 p.m.
liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Their test flight of a SpaceX Dragon capsule will be the first orbital checkout of a new American spacecraft since the debut of the space shuttle over 39 years ago. WHO ARE THEY? Hurley, 53, and Behnken, 49, have each flown two shuttle missions and were assigned as