Sunday’s SpaceX launch is now 70% favorable - WJXT News4JAX

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The SpaceX launch that was supposed to take place Saturday evening is now postponed until Sunday evening due to strong onshore winds Saturday.

Right now, for Sunday the launch is 70% favorable. NASA has to consider a wide variety of weather conditions before the crew can launch safely.

Come Sunday evening, the Space Coast can expect highs in the low 80s, light winds out of the northeast, and a 30% chance for showers that will start to taper off by 5 p.m.

The launch will happen at 7:27 p.m. Sunday evening and you can catch it live right here on Channel 4.

The mission, called Crew-1, will see a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on an 8.5-hour trip to the International Space Station.

The launch will blast three American astronauts -- Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins and Shannon Walker -- and a Japanese astronaut -- Soichi Noguchi -- from Kennedy Space Center.

It will be the first fully-crewed SpaceX launch since the inaugural May 2020 SpaceX demonstration mission that sent astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon capsule.

The mission will span six months.

NASA is contracting with a private company to transport four astronauts to the ISS for a six-month stay. Saturday’s 7:49 p.m launch will mark the start of commercial spaceflight.

SpaceX expects to launch seven Dragons over the next 14 months: three for crew and four for cargo.

NASA selected Boeing and SpaceX in September 2014 to transport crew to the International Space Station from the United States.

Find out more information on Sunday’s launch here.

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