NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley are scheduled to take off at 4:30 p.m. ET.
As well as the weather near the launch site, SpaceX and NASA will also be keeping a close watch on conditions in the Atlantic downrange of the Falcon 9 rocket's northeasterly trajectory.
These need to be relatively calm in case the astronauts are forced to activate the Crew Dragon spacecraft's emergency escape system after launch. As of yesterday, the conditions for this region seemed to be generally favorable. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft attached sits on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on May 27, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida."I would say it's looking OK," Daniel Forrestel, launch integration manager for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, told CBS News on Tuesday."I think our biggest risk right now is the weather on the pad. But it's never completely risk free downrange.
At present, SpaceX is still targeting a launch at 4:33 p.m. EDT."Teams are closely monitoring launch and downrange weather," the company tweeted. The final decision on whether to launch or not will be made about 45 minutes before. If conditions are not looking favorable at this point, the launch will be postponed until Saturday at 3:21 p.m. There is also a second backup launch window on Sunday at 3:00 p.m., although there is a chance that both of these times could also affected by stormy weather, according to The Weather Channel.
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