UPDATE 5-Ominous weather looms as NASA set to resume human spaceflight with SpaceX takeoff
May 27, 2020 at 15:23 PM EDT
Even as ominous weather threatened to delay the mission, two astronauts were strapped into a capsule as they prepared to be carried into orbit on Wednesday by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX in the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years.