Astronauts will ride aboard the vessel in the first manned U.S. space mission in nearly 10 years. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - President Donald Trump’s plan to celebrate the first space launch of American astronauts from U.S.
soil in nearly a decade on Wednesday hit a snag when the mission was postponed at the last minute because of bad weather. The president and first lady Melania Trump arrived at Cape Canaveral to a steady drizzle more than an hour before the scheduled 4:33 p.m.
EDT liftoff. But officials announced shortly before the scheduled launch that it would have to be put off until Saturday. RELATED: What you should know about SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, the spacecraft poised to make history It was not immediately clear if the president