After scrubbing its original launch on May 27 due to bad weather , SpaceX will set about tomake historyyet again today ( May 30 ) when it launches its first crew spacecraft from Cape Canaveral , Florida , at 3:22 p.m. EDT . power by a Falcon 9 rocket , the Crew Dragon space vehicle will send NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station , commemorate the ship’s company ’s first - ever crewed mission and the first crewed launch from the U.S. since 2011 . If you need to watch the momentous outcome from home , there areplenty of waysto current it live online .
Both SpaceX and NASA will be hosting livestreams of the May 30 launching . NASA’swebcastkicks off at 11 a.m. EDT today with unrecorded look at the Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center . The provender will proceed streaming until the afternoon of Sunday , May 31 , with the spacecraft set to bob at the International Space Station at 10:29 a.m. EDT . you may enamour the coverage onNASA ’s web site , its social media channels ( includingYouTube ) , or on the NASA TV channel through cable or satellite . SpaceX ’s current will be broadcast on the company’sYouTube transmission channel . ( you could watch over the video below ) .
Several television connection will be covering the result ( check your local itemisation ) , and ABC News Live will partner with National Geographic to publicize " Launch America : Mission to Space Live " at 3 p.m. EDT .
The launch has been scheduled down to the minute , but SpaceX still has time to change that reckon on the weather . Wednesday ’s launch was cancel less than 17 minutes before liftoff , and SpaceX founder Elon Musk hasalready tweetedthat there ’s a 50 percent fortune that weather condition could prove problematic once again . If today ’s launch does n’t happen fit in to plan , there is another windowpane place aside for a third attack tomorrow , Sunday , May 31 , at 3 p.m. EDT , with CNN report that the betting odds of accommodative weather being slightly higher — about60 percent — for tomorrow .
This story has been update .
