How to Watch When SpaceX Crew Dragon Launches

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken familiarize themselves with SpaceX's Crew Dragon, the spacecraft that will transport them to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., in August 2018. SpaceX via AP

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is scheduled to launch with two American astronauts on Wednesday from the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida.

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and SpaceX founder Elon Musk will be among those watching in person as the Falcon 9 rocket takes off with the capsule attached. It will be the first launch of astronauts from the United States in nine years and the first time a private aircraft has flown American astronauts into orbit.