Hey everybody, set your iphone's, samsung's, etc alarm for 4:00 today!!

[Fla Dem]

Haven't had stormy weather in at least a month, now this week rain and thunderstorms predicted for all week. Got my fingers crossed.

SpaceX launch today: The countdown begins, but stormy weather looms

Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 4:33 p.m. ET.

Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.David J. Phillip / AP
May 27, 2020, 9:51 AM EDT
By Denise Chow
SpaceX is set to launch its first astronaut crew into orbit Wednesday afternoon, a flight that marks the return of human spaceflight from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade.

The countdown to launch is underway. Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 4:33 p.m. ET on a test flight to the International Space Station. The historic launch will be the first time that NASA astronauts have flown to the orbiting lab in a commercially built spacecraft.

It will also be the first time that human passengers are launched into orbit from the U.S. since NASA retired its space shuttle fleet in 2011.

"Our country has been through a lot," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Tuesday in a news briefing. "But this is a unique moment when all of America can take a moment and look at our country do something stunning again, and that is to launch American astronauts on an American rocket from American soil to the space station."

NASA is, however, monitoring weather reports at the Florida launch site that may delay proceedings. The Air Force's 45th Space Wing, which oversees space launch operations from the East Coast, currently forecasts a 40 percent chance that clouds or stormy weather will violate established launch safety guidelines. If that happens, NASA and SpaceX will have another opportunity to send the Crew Dragon capsule into orbit on Saturday.

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[House of Roberts]

1. In the middle of Randi Rhodes' second hour.

I don't need an alarm. It's raining today so I won't be outside.

[BannonsLiver]

9. She's still on the air?

[SaintLouisBlues]

11. Monday through Friday 3:00-5:00 pm Eastern time. Youtube, Free Speech TV among other platforms.

Including https://randirhodes.com/

[Totally Tunsie]

2. OMG - are you looking in my window?

I JUST did that exact thing before scrolling down and finding your post!

Many years ago I worked for McDonnell Douglas in Huntington beach, CA, and I still find NASA launches to be fascinating. I'm "all in" for this afternoon.

[Fla Dem]

17. No, I swear, I wasn't peeping in your window!!! LOL!

[babylonsister]

3. There's a gullywasher outside my house right now, and

I'm about 15 miles from the Cape. Thunder, lightening, oh my!

[Tipperary]

4. I am afraid the wx is going to cancel it.

Totally off subject, am I the only one who finds those new spacesuits kind of odd looking? First thing a friend of mine said was that they looked like the cone heads from SNL of yore.

[Fla Dem]

5. Lol, no I actually like them. Much sleeker than those bulky ones of yore.

[dmr]

7. Looks like it's straight out of Hollywood.

They're pretty cool looking.

[Tipperary]

23. It just reminds me of the old space shows from the past.

Of course, I cannot remember the one I am thinking of.

[dmr]

30. Same here, on both counts

I draw a lot of blanks these days!

I see that they cancelled it today.

[Totally Tunsie]

22. While they're a little alien looking at first, they're growing on me.

I like the sleek, uncluttered look, compared to the originals. It's the helmets that creep me out a bit - ants? aliens?

It seems as though these outfits will be easier to wear and work in without the bulk.

[lpbk2713]

6. Thanks. I'll be in my back yard.

I'm about 100 miles away but I can usually see them.

[Baclava]

8. Thunderstorms all around, 50/50 chance they find a window to launch today

It's on Youtube, live coverage

[cwydro]

16. I hope they're a go.

What channel on YouTube?

[Baclava]

19. Youtube TV, NASA coverage SpaceX, first thing that pops up

[cwydro]

20. Thanks! I found one channel.

Very cool.

[Hortensis]

10. Hi, Fla Dem. We hope to see something of it from across FL,

NW of Kennedy and closer to the west coast -- if clouds allow for once. Must be a tiny little view, but we're hoping to see it from the very different world of our patio in FL's marshy boonies.

[mcar]

12. We're heading to New Smyrna Beach in an hour or so

to visit family. Hope we make it in time to see the launch.

[Fla Dem]

14. Lucky you, I'm up the coast more so not sure we'll see it. Also intermittent downpours and clouds.

[demmiblue]

13. Suiting up:

Link to tweet

[Fla Dem]

15. Cool, thanks.

[demmiblue]

18. Adding this: live NASA coverage

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1lDxLglolpQJm

Also, it would be totally irresponsible of me to not include this pic of retired NASA astronaut Leland Melvin:

[demmiblue]

21. They are inside the Dragon. Fascinating stuff:

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1lDxLglolpQJm




I am feeling claustrophobic, though!

[Tipperary]

24. Thanks for posting this link!

[Baclava]

25. Scrubbed, try again another day, weather. Next window in 3 days

[demmiblue]

26. Launch is aborted. n/t

[Fla Dem]

28. Better safe than sorry. Trump probably will say no one asked him.

He would have gone.

[demmiblue]

29. True. It was still fascinating coverage.

Trump did go. I thought I saw that Betsy DeVos was there, as well (in addition to Trump and Pence)...

I hope the whole lot of them do make the trek on Saturday.

[Hortensis]

27. Darn. I was just out checking the band of clouds

on the east horizon and thinking, maybe!