NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 launch tonight: Everything to know about the latest launch attempt

It's launch day — for another attempt at sending NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 into space!

After a Friday postponement and a Saturday night scrub, the Crew-8 team is now targeting 10:53 p.m. EST to launch the Crew-8 astronauts' Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station.

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Saturday night's unsuccessful launch attempt was postponed "due to unfavorable conditions in the flight path of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft," a NASA blog post said.

"The Crew-8 launch will carry NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin to the orbital laboratory. The targeted docking time is about 3 a.m. on Tuesday," the post said.

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