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SpaceX and NASA launch delayed due to Florida storms

A backup launch date on May 30 will provide another chance to send astronauts to the International Space Station.

Dark clouds hang over the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 27, 2020. The flight was scrubbed due to weather.

Photograph by David J. Phillip, AP Photos

A SpaceX launch that was set to carry astronauts to the International Space Station has been scrubbed due to inclement weather along the Atlantic coast of Florida. The Demo-2 mission will now attempt to lift off at 3:22 p.m. ET on May 30. NASA has additional backup launch times planned for May 31 and tentatively June 2 and June 3.

The SpaceX control center said they were “not going to quite make it on this,” as the company and NASA decided to call off the day's launch. “Unfortunately, we are not going to launch today,” SpaceX launch director Mike Taylor announced during NASA’s live broadcast.

When it does lift off, the mission is slated to be the first time astronauts

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