SpaceX is set to launch its first astronaut crew into orbit Wednesday afternoon, a flight that marks the return of human spaceflight from US soil for the first time in nearly a decade.
that clouds or stormy weather will violate established launch safety guidelines. If that happens, NASA and SpaceX will have another opportunity to send the Crew Dragon capsule into orbit on Saturday.
After lifting off, Behnken and Hurley will spend around 19 hours orbiting the Earth before their capsule makes its rendezvous with the space station. If all goes according to plan Wednesday, the spacecraft is expected to dock at around 11:29 a.m. ET Thursday.
After NASA shuttered its space shuttle program, the agency was forced to buy rides to the space station aboard Russian capsules and rockets. If SpaceX's launch is successful, American astronauts may soon have a new way to travel to and from the orbiting outpost. SpaceX has spent the past six years building and testing its Crew Dragon capsule. For years, the company has used an uncrewed version of the spacecraft to ferry supplies to the space station, but this will be SpaceX's first launch with humans onboard.
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