Bad weather rains on SpaceX’s parade
Nasa astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken, who are are scheduled to ride the Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station, at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on May 23. – EPA pic, May 27, 2020.
INCLEMENT weather threatened today to postpone SpaceX’s launch into orbit of two Nasa astronauts, a historic first for a privately owned company and the first crewed mission to blast off from US soil in almost a decade. A thunderstorm lashed the Kennedy Space Centre in the morning, and the National Hurricane Centre announced a tropical storm was forming off South Carolina, presenting a possible risk if astronauts are forced to carry out an emergency landing in the Atlantic shortly after takeoff.
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