SpaceX NASA launch recap as rocket lifts off and enters orbit

Launch countdown update

There’s just over three hours to go before the launch, and NASA has confirmed that the countdown continues to go well.

NASA said: “The countdown continues to go well for today’s planned 3:22 p.m. EDT launch of NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 flight test to the International Space Station.

“At Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is powered on and the launch team is pressurizing gaseous storage vessels on board. Meanwhile, the Crew Dragon spacecraft is being prepared for NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken to board later in the countdown.”

However, the weather isn’t looking promising for tonight’s launch.

NASA added: “Weather remains the big question for today; the chance of favorable conditions at launch time remains 50%.”

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