NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will travel to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon capsule. They're scheduled to lift off at 3:22 p.m. Watch here 👇
A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday.A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday.NASA astronauts are heading to space from U.S.
Similar weather concerns dogged the launch and nearly forced a second delay, but NASA and SpaceX decided early Saturday that conditions were trending in the right direction. Hurley, 53, and Behnken, 49 will put the bell-shaped Dragon through its paces on the way to the station. Dragon, which on resembles an updated Apollo-era command module, sports a sleek interior and oversized touchscreen controls. It is being carried by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, which has been used successfully dozens of times to put satellites and space-station cargo into orbit.
Such a launch, if successful, would mark the first time NASA has sent astronauts into space from the U.S. since the end of the shuttle program in 2011. It would also be a first for SpaceX, which has ambitions of someday taking paying customers zooming around the Earth.
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