A new era of space should open on Wednesday with the launch by SpaceX of the two Nasa astronauts in space, a capacity long monopoly of a handful of States, and of which the United States themselves were deprived for the past nine years.

the launch of The first manned flight of SpaceX remains planned for Wednesday to a little more than four hours from takeoff, but the uncertainty remained about the weather conditions, announced Nasa in the middle of the day.