Large Crowds Expected For Today's SpaceX Launch

Cape Canaveral,Fla.(970 WFLA)-Heavy traffic is expected later today as crowds gather to see the first daytime launch on the Space Coast in more than six months.  

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center at 3:46 p.m. eastern time.  It will carry a communications satellite into orbit for the middle eastern nation of Qatar.

Air Force forecasters are predicting a 60-percent chance of favorable weather conditions.

Photo credit: SpaceX


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