SpaceX-Nasa launch scrubbed due to poor weather
by Richard Luscombe from Science | The Guardian on (#53ZXG)
The first crewed flight from US soil since 2011 was called off 16 minutes before lift off; the next opportunity is on Saturday
The United States' long-anticipated return to human spaceflight will have to wait a few more days after poor weather forced mission managers to scrub Wednesday's planned launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida.
The first crewed flight from US soil since 2011 was called off 16min 53sec before the scheduled 4.33pm lift-off time, with SpaceX and Nasa officials blaming strength of electric fields in the atmosphere", translating to lightning near the launchpad.
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