SpaceX reschedules in flight abort test for Sunday morning

Cape Canaveral, Fla. — It may not have gone as planned today for NASA and SpaceX, but they are not giving up on their in flight Crew Dragon launch escape test.

The test was supposed to take place Saturday morning at 8 a.m., but sustained winds and rough seas in the recovery area forced them to cancel and re-schedule the test for Sunday morning at 8 a.m. The test will demonstrate the capsule's ability to keep the astronauts safe during a launch emergency.

For the test, a Falcon 9 rocket will follow a similar path that a real Crew Dragon mission would take to the International Space Station. Roughly a minute and a half later, they will trigger a launch escape so that the capsule can safely separate itself from the rocket. Ten minutes after that, the Crew Dragon will splash down at the recovery site, which will earn its certification from the Commercial Crew program.

Last weekend, the company had a successful static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket that will used during this demonstration. If things go as planned this time, we will be one step closer to launching astronauts back into space.

You can watch the live broadcast, which starts 20 minutes before liftoff here: