Elon Musk’s SpaceX Rocket Launch Postponed Until Saturday

By Steve Bynum
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A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, prepare to lift off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, May 27, 2020. The veicle is venting as the mission was scrubbed. The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit was been called off with 16 minutes to go in the countdown because of the danger of lightning. David J. Philip / AP Photo
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A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, prepare to lift off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, May 27, 2020. The veicle is venting as the mission was scrubbed. The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit was been called off with 16 minutes to go in the countdown because of the danger of lightning. David J. Philip / AP Photo

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Rocket Launch Postponed Until Saturday

By Steve Bynum
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NASA and SpaceX were forced to call off Wednesday’s launch of the Falcon 9 rocket because of bad weather. It would have been the first U.S. manned space flight in nearly a decade.

Reset finds out why Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket remains grounded.

GUEST: Edward Kolb, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of Chicago.