Historic space launch scrubbed due to weather

The SpaceX Crew Dragon historic space launch was scrubbed due to weather shortly before liftoff Wednesday.

With astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on board, the Crew Dragon was scheduled to leave the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, at 4:33 p.m. EDT, in the first manned launch from American soil in nearly 10 years.

Rain was falling on the Space Coast throughout the day.

Sixteen minutes before liftoff, NASA experts made the call to nix the launch. The next available window is Saturday.