SpaceX delays commercial space station flight pending data review
A one-day launch delay will give SpaceX engineers time to complete final reviews of pre-launch processing.
Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. He covered 129 space shuttle missions, every interplanetary flight since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune and scores of commercial and military launches. Based at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Harwood is a devoted amateur astronomer and co-author of "Comm Check: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia."
A one-day launch delay will give SpaceX engineers time to complete final reviews of pre-launch processing.
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