Updates: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Launch Postponed by NASA due to Bad Weather, the making of history with first private manned launch to orbit
On May 27th, the SpaceX launch was postponed by @nasa due to weather. With just minutes to go before launch, the mission was aborted, leaving the whole country in great anticipation.
Tune into live coverage of the second launch attempt this Saturday May 30 starting at 2PM ET on Discovery. #SpaceLaunchLIVE
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX makes history on Wednesday — going where no private enterprise has gone before with the first nongovernment launch of humans into orbit.
The Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket, delivering two astronauts to the International Space Station, will be the first American manned launch to orbit in nearly a decade: NASA had stepped aside from that task as part of encouraging the private sector to jump in.
Other companies are in the mix: Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic took crew to more than 50 miles above the Earth (and so, technically, into orbit) in 2018 and again in 2019 in tests of its rocket-powered VSS Unity spaceplane in a launch from and to the Mojave Air and Space Port in Southern California.
But the Unity is a suborbital vehicle; SpaceX wins the prize for the first orbit-capable craft — and it’s actually delivering crew.
More challenges await — and Virgin, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and other private firms will compete madly to meet them.
Get set for a new American Space Age
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