Thick clouds and rain over the Florida coast early Saturday forced the California-based SpaceX to postpone the launch of its Dragon cargo carrier to deliver food and supplies to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n
Another attempt is planned for early Sunday at 1:52 am (0552 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, when the weather forecast is 40 percent favorable for launch.<\/p>\n
The journey by SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon cargo capsule would be the fifth for SpaceX, and the fourth in a series of SpaceX’s contracted supply missions with NASA.<\/p>\n
The supply ship is carrying 5,000 pounds (2,300 kilograms) of supplies, food and equipment for the six-member crew at the orbiting outpost.<\/p>\n
SpaceX in 2010 became the first private company to send a spacecraft to the ISS.<\/p>\n
The company is run by Internet mogul Elon Musk, who accumulated his fortune by co-founding PayPal and also runs Tesla Motors.<\/p>\n
SpaceX this week was awarded a $2 billion contract from NASA to continue developing its Dragon V2 vehicle with the goal of sending people to the space station as early as 2017.<\/p>\n
Boeing won a larger NASA contract, more than $4 billion, for the development of its CST-10 crew vehicle.<\/p>\n
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