Stormy weather might put a damper on SpaceX’s 1st astronaut launch

Cape Canaveral, Fla. • Stormy weather is threatening to delay SpaceX’s first astronaut launch.A SpaceX rocket is scheduled to blast off Wednesday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center, carrying a Dragon capsule with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station. It will be the first time astronauts launch from Florida in nine years and a first for a private company.The manager of NASA's commercial crew program, Kathy Lueders, said everything was progress