{"id":353745,"date":"2020-05-28T07:16:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T05:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=353745"},"modified":"2020-05-28T07:17:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T05:17:48","slug":"spacexs-first-crewed-rocket-launch-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/353745-spacexs-first-crewed-rocket-launch-delayed.html","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s first crewed rocket launch delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX will try again May 30 to launch astronauts into orbit after NASA scrubbed a Wednesday mission as bad weather threatened Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The new timeline means Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX will have to wait a few more days for astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to ride the company\u2019s Dragon capsule to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The voyage &#8212; scheduled for 3:22 p.m. on Saturday &#8212; will be the first launch of American astronauts from U.S. soil since 2011.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-social-embedded\" data-original-url=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBridenstine\/statuses\/1265739180702945280\" data-social-media-type=\"twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No launch for today &#8211; safety for our crew members\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astro_Doug?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Astro_Doug<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstroBehnken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AstroBehnken<\/a>\u00a0is our top priority.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll try, try again to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LaunchAmerica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#LaunchAmerica<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday with liftoff at 3:22pm ET. NASA TV will begin coverage at 11 am. Join us again virtually:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LO1sJwia2G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/LO1sJwia2G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBridenstine\/status\/1265739180702945280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The groundbreaking mission, the first such journey in a commercially developed spacecraft, is the final major test of SpaceX\u2019s human flight system before it can be certified to fly working crews to and from the space station.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing Co. is also preparing to carry people to the orbiting lab as part of the same \u201cCommercial Crew\u201d program at NASA.<\/p>\n<p>If the SpaceX launch attempt gets scrubbed again, May 31 will serve as a backup.<\/p>\n<p>Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies Corp. in 2002 with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.<\/p>\n<p>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been a key partner and customer every step of the way for the Hawthorne, California-based company. A cargo-only version of SpaceX\u2019s Dragon capsule already makes regular runs to the space station.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump, who flew in on Air Force One shortly before the launch time, indicated he would return for the next launch attempt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to @NASA and @SpaceX for their hard work and leadership. Look forward to being back with you on Saturday!\u201d Trump tweeted while flying back to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told reporters on the plane that Trump would return if a launch takes place this weekend. NASA announced the postponement while Trump and Vice President Mike Pence were at the viewing site.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/353497-virgin-orbit-fails-attempted-rocket-launch-from-747.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Virgin Orbit fails attempted rocket launch from 747<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX will try again May 30 to launch astronauts into orbit after NASA scrubbed a Wednesday mission as bad weather threatened Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":353747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[63068,11373,34625,761,44987,11375],"class_list":["post-353745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-crew-dragon","tag-elon-musk","tag-falcon-9","tag-nasa","tag-rocket-launch","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353751,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353745\/revisions\/353751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}