I am happy that the NASA launch is delayed because it is important to do the right thing. I feel for the people who are working hard to get this launch done but I am proud and glad, that they are making the right decisions.

The launch had to be scrubbed due to unfavorable weather in the flight path. If it had to be scrubbed, it had to be scrubbed. That is science and that is life, both are hard. Nature does not have to cooperate with us, the media, the government, or anyone.

NASA says on their website:

A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 3:22 p.m. EDT May 30, from Launch Complex 39A in Florida, for an extended stay at the space station for the Demo-2 mission. The specific duration of the mission is to be determined.

As the final flight test for SpaceX, this mission will validate the company’s crew transportation system, including the launch pad, rocket, spacecraft, and operational capabilities. This also will be the first time NASA astronauts will test the spacecraft systems in orbit.

Just for perspective, another NASA launch (balloon mission)

It took three attempts to launch ANITA-4 due to weather conditions and that is a balloon mission with no humans on it, so I am not surprised that there may be a few delays for this critical launch.

For ANITA-4, we would work all day, eat dinner, take a short nap, and get ready at midnight to go launch ANITA in the early hours of the morning, and then it would get scrubbed due to weather.

The life of launching is not comfortable. If it is scrubbed, the people working on the launch have it the hardest.

Here is a video from our 3rd attempt at launching ANITA-4, which doesn’t have footage of the final few minutes because I was very busy living in the moment (& crying) when our payload went up in the sky.