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Cape Canaveral, Fla. — Bad weather has again postponed the SpaceX-Crew 8 mission to the International Space Station. The launch was scheduled for 11:16 p.m. Saturday.
NASA will attempt another launch Sunday at 10:53 p.m.
If the launch goes as planned, Jeanette Epps, a Syracuse native and Le Moyne College grad, will join three other astronauts on the trip to the ISS.
The astronauts will spend six months on the station, conducting experiments that will give more information about the long-term effects of living in space.
The trip from Florida to the space station’s dock is expected to take five hours.
High winds delayed the originally planned launch on Friday morning.
Epps grew up on Syracuse’s South Side, graduating from Corcoran High School and Le Moyne College before heading off to the University of Maryland for her doctorate degree. She was an engineer for Ford and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency before becoming an astronaut.
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