NASA, SpaceX delay Crew-12 launch to Friday
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At 5:15 a.m. EST, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch comes after days of weather delays, not in Florida, but along the flight path over the Atlantic Ocean.
Godspeed, Crew-12! Weather permitting and depending on clouds, rocket launches in Cape Canaveral can be seen in West Palm Beach, about 150 miles away.
Granite Staters were able to see a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in flight over New Hampshire early Friday morning.
Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is accustomed to getting makeovers. It got another one Wednesday with the removal of the Crew Access Arm used by astronauts to board their rides to space.
Crew-12 is scheduled to lift off at 6:01 a.m. Feb. 11 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for an eight-month International Space Station mission.
Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building a city on the moon.