For the moment, takeoff remains scheduled for 10.33pm SA time from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A.
This NASA photo shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at sunrise as preparations continue for the Demo-2 mission, on May 27, 2020, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Picture: Joel KOWSKY / NASA / AFP
NASA and SpaceX officials will meet in the morning to determine whether or not to postpone to Saturday, the next possible launch window. The mission has proceeded despite shutdowns caused by the coronavirus pandemic, with the crew in quarantine for the past two weeks. “SpaceX would not be here without NASA,” said Musk last year, after a successful dress rehearsal without humans for the trip to the ISS.
At the time, there was immense hostility in Congress and NASA to the start-up’s claims of what it could achieve.The Republican is trying to reaffirm American domination of space, militarily but also by ordering a return to the Moon in 2024.
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