The SpaceX Crew Dragon sits atop a Falcon 9 booster rocket on Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center before a scheduled in-flight abort test at Cape Canaveral, Florida January 17, 2020. REUTERS/Joe Rimkus Jr.
CAPE CANAVERAL (Reuters) - Bad weather forced Elon Musk's SpaceX to delay until Sunday a test in which it will destroy one of its own rockets in a trial of a crucial emergency abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule.
The test, the company's final milestone test before flying NASA astronauts from U.S. soil, had been planned to take place on Saturday.
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