Two NASA astronauts had been being strapped in for a historic SpaceX rocket launch Wednesday afternoon — however the climate may nonetheless derail their journey.
Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken rolled up inside Teslas round 1:30 p.m. to launch pad 39A in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for a mission to the Worldwide House Station with Elon Musk’s house enterprise that might mark the primary time a non-public firm has despatched people into orbit.
With lower than three hours till the deliberate liftoff, the doorways of their gull-winged Tesla Mannequin X SUVs — constructed by one other Musk enterprise — opened outward and upward to let the house veterans onto the launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy House Middle.
Each males had been already suited up, and took their seats contained in the brand-new Dragon capsule, the place crew members started strapping them in.
However the climate may probably complicate the plans for the liftoff, which shall be attended by President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
Blastoff is scheduled for 4:33 p.m., however launch controllers round noon put the possibilities of acceptable climate for liftoff at round 50-50 attributable to rain, clouds and thunderstorms.
If it goes forward as deliberate, the mission would be the first time in practically a decade that the nation has launched astronauts into orbit from US soil.
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