SpaceX will try again this Saturday evening. The decision to launch the first manned flight of American society this Saturday had been questioned after observing the weather, when a first test had already been canceled at the last moment.
“We are preparing for launch today,” tweeted Jim Bridenstine, adding that the risk of cancellation due to inclement weather remained 50%.
We are moving forward with launch today. Weather challenges remain with a 50% chance of cancellation. #LaunchAmerica
– Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) May 30, 2020
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For fear of lightning, the first attempt to launch the Crew Dragon capsule towards the International Space Station (ISS) with two astronauts on board had been canceled on Wednesday, only 17 minutes before the scheduled take-off time.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launch, with the Crew Dragon capsule at its summit, is scheduled for this Saturday at 3:22 p.m. (9:22 p.m. in France) from the Kennedy Center, from where the astronauts who walked on the Moon took off in the 1960s and 1970. The two astronauts are Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.
The event will be followed from 9 p.m., live and in full, on BFMTV.
New space age
Tourists and space enthusiasts were installed Wednesday on the beaches of the coast of Florida, including the famous Cocoa Beach, to attend the first attempt to launch.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump came to witness in person what NASA calls the dawn of a new space era, where the United States entrusts to the private sector the transport of its astronauts, and at the same time regain access to the space they had lost in 2011 with the end of the space shuttles. The President has indicated that he will return on Saturday.
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