There is an 18 percent chance of rain forecasted for Thursday morning’s long-awaited flight test launch of Orion, NASA’s next-generation spacecraft slated to eventually send astronauts into space, according to Weather Underground. The roughly 2.5-hour launch window opens at 7:05 a.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., according to a NASA statement. Mark Geyer, NASA’s Orion program manager, said Tuesday the unusually-large launch window gives stakeholders a lot of flexibility in case rain…
