Via NASA TV CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After nine years, Americans are back in the business of launching astronauts into space.
Following a weather delay earlier this week, Mother Nature finally allowed NASA and SpaceX to end the longest gap in U.S. spaceflight history Saturday.
Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken lifted off at 3:22 p.m., their Falcon 9 rocket blazing into hazy skies over Kennedy Space Center as thousands of tourists watched from up and down the coast and even President Donald Trump looked on.
The clouds parted just in time for the launch. Forecasters had expected only a 50-percent chance of acceptable conditions, and it looked ominous when storms were building as Hurley and Behnken walked out of the famous doors at KSC’s