6 ways to watch SpaceX's historic first rocket launch of NASA astronauts live online
The rocket and spaceship carrying Behnken and Hurley has just a second or so to lift off and get on the right path to meet the ISS. So if there's any delay in the launch on Wednesday, SpaceX and NASA can try again at 3:22 p.m. ET on Saturday or 3 p.m. ET on Sunday.
Below are six live video broadcasts of the historic launch that you can watch, some online and some via TV channels. We've also provided a NASA timeline of launch-day events at the end of this post so you can follow along.NASA TV, the agency's ongoing livestream program, will broadcast coverage from the launchpad starting at noon Eastern Time on Wednesday.
Once the crew lifts off, it will take SpaceX's new Crew Dragon spaceship just under nine minutes to reach orbit. Along the way, the capsule's automated systems or the crew's manual override could abort the mission if there's any problem and try to splash down in the Atlantic Ocean.
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