By Patrick Hipes Executive Managing Editor SpaceX’s launch of its Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station with a pair of NASA astronauts aboard the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft set for Wednesday, with Elon Musk’s space company eyeing a liftoff window that opens at 4:33 PM ET/1:33 PM PT at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL.
If the launch window holds for the Crew Dragon’s demo mission (its second) to the space station, it will mark the first U.S.
manned spaceflight since the 2011 end of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. It will also be the first private, commercially built manned spaceflight, with astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board. (The Dragon spacecraft is designed to eventually carry private passengers
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