NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are on a roughly 19-hour journey to the International Space Station. It’s a mission nearly a decade in the making.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A pillar of fire tore through the skies above Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, as NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley returned to space on a historic mission nearly a decade in the making.
Weather is a difficult obstacle because teams can't extend a window and wait for the weather to improve. The requirement for Falcon 9 to launch exactly on time is due to orbital mechanics, as the Crew Dragon capsule has to "catch up" with the ISS, which is traveling at 17,000 mph about 250 miles above Earth.
Earlier in the week, Michael Mathews and 10 vacationing relatives from Dandridge, Tennessee, drove from Kissimmee to the Cocoa Beach Pier to see the SpaceX crewed launch on Wednesday – but it was scrubbed.Story continues“This is history, man. You’ve got two Americans being launched from America for the first time since 2011,” said Mathews, who is a U.S. Navy veteran.
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