NASA, SpaceX delay Crew-12 launch to Friday
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By Steve Nesius and Steve Gorman CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Feb 13 (Reuters) - A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida early on Friday with a crew of two U.S. NASA astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut headed to the International Space Station for an eight-month science mission in microgravity.
Granite Staters were able to see a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in flight over New Hampshire early Friday morning.
Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is accustomed to getting makeovers. It got another one Wednesday with the removal of the Crew Access Arm used by astronauts to board their rides to space.
Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building a city on the moon.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to lift off at 5:15 a.m. EST Friday, Feb. 13, from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.