CHURCH: In Florida, they came close to making history, but the weather had other plans. Wednesday SpaceX launch carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station was postponed due to thunderstorms. But the weather isn't going to stop them forever. CNN's Rachel Crane reports from the Kennedy Space Center.</s>RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: NASA and SpaceX has its historic launch of crew dragon was scrub just 16 minutes and 54 seconds before its scheduled lift off of 4:33 local time. The President and the Vice President where here when that scrub occurred. They had travel to Kennedy Space Center to witness what everybody hope would be a historic launch. Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were already strapped into the capsule as a million pounds of propellant of liquid oxygen and liquid kerosene where being pumped into the Falcon 9 rocket. The launch window was instantaneous, meaning that if it didn't take off at exactly the precise time to rendezvous with the International Space Station 250 miles above earth, the launch had to be canceled and that is what occurred. But all is not lost. The launch is rescheduled for this Saturday at 3:22 local time. Until then, the astronauts will head back into quarantine. If successful, this would be the first time in nearly nine years that American astronauts are launching from American soil on American rockets and it would put SpaceX in the domain of governments. They will be the first private company that puts U.S. astronauts into orbit. So, fingers crossed. Mother nature is on our side. Back to you.</s>CHURCH: Wonderful. Thanks for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. I will be right back with more news from all around the world. Do stay with us.
Launch Scrubbed, SpaceX Postpones Historic Launch Due To Bad Weather.