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I'm Deppermak on today's show, why Hertz went broke and what a major music label can tell us

about the pandemic. But first, SpaceX blasts off.

So tomorrow, Elon Musk's private space company plans to launch its first ever crewed mission,

which also would double as the first launch of NASA astronauts from the US since 2011.

Why it matters is that this flight could determine the future of US space exploration, plus of the burgeoning private sector space industry.

The rocket itself is SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9, which it's launched before, and the space capsule is being called the crew dragon.

It can technically hold up to seven people, but tomorrow will have only two, with the capsule then able to automatically or autonomously dock

with the International Space Station. Both of the astronauts here, they have flown before,

back during NASA's space shuttle program. But again, this will be the first launch of NASA astronauts

from U.S. soil in nearly a decade. Over the past nine years, all of the other launches have

been done out of Russia, and there's already some talk that the U.S. reasserting this level of control over its space program could fray a bit

more at the already tense relationship between the two countries, competition rather than collaboration.

Oh, and one more thing to know, the launch might not happen, even though everyone from President

Trump to Elon Musk is expected to be at or around Cape Canaveral.

The reason? A bad forecast tomorrow afternoon in Florida.

This thing has to go off exactly at 4.33 p.m. Eastern or it doesn't go at all.

And the next launch date would be on Saturday.

In 20 seconds, we'll go deeper with Axios Space Editor Miriam Kramer.

But first, this.

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