SpaceX, NASA Launch Astronauts to Space Station as Clouds Stay Just Far Enough Away
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SpaceX, NASA Launch Astronauts to Space Station as Clouds Stay Just Far Enough Away
SpaceX’s latest mission for NASA launched four astronauts toward the International Space Station on Friday. An initial launch attempt on Thursday was thwarted in the last minute of the countdown by a threatening cloud.
An initial launch attempt on Thursday was thwarted in the last minute of the countdown by a threatening cloud above the launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
On Friday, a U-shape formation of clouds encroached but stayed just far enough away for the launch to proceed.
“We got very lucky today, I would say,” Steve Stich, the manager of NASA’s commercial crew program, said during a postlaunch news conference.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/science/nasa-astronauts-space-station-cardman.html