Will SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch in May?

The SpaceX Falcon 9 booster rocket is sitting on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla awaiting a firm launch date sometime this month --- Sunday, May 23rd, perhaps later. SpaceX is working to gain the necessary flight hardware approvals of the USAF range officers and get a date that fits with the space shuttle launch/landing and the scheduled May 20 launch of a Delta IV booster with the Air Force’s Global Positioning System IIF-SV1 satellite.

When the Falcon 9 rides the flame into the sky, the dawn of the commercial space era will be sounded more clearly in Florida, the nation, and around-the-globe.