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    NASA And SpaceX Prepare To Launch Astronauts On New Spaceship

    If the weather holds, later today the space agency and the commercial spaceflight company will send two astronauts on a trip to the International Space Station.
    by Geoff Brumfiel May 27, 2020 3 minutes
    The Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are set to launch on Wednesday afternoon.

    Updated at 12:30 p.m. ET

    NASA and SpaceX appear to have brushed aside concerns about the weather as they prepare to launch two astronauts to the International Space Station later today. It will be the first-ever crewed mission for the commercial spaceflight company, and the first launch of NASA astronauts from American soil since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.

    Earlier Wednesday, weather spawned by Tropical Storm Bertha — which made landfall in South Carolina — caused concern that the

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