Who's up for a Florida rocket launch in the middle of the night? Weather permitting, SpaceX Falcon 9 could be visible from Volusia County after liftoff

Four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission launched at 5:15 a.m. EST Friday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station.

At 5:15 a.m. EST, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch comes after days of weather delays, not in Florida, but along the flight path over the Atlantic Ocean.

Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold and said his SpaceX rocket company will instead focus on building a city on the moon.

Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is accustomed to getting makeovers. It got another one Wednesday with the removal of the Crew Access Arm used by astronauts to board their rides to space.

Crew-12 is scheduled to lift off at 6:01 a.m. Feb. 11 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for an eight-month International Space Station mission.

Environmentalists worry additional launches will harm wildlife and pollute waterways near Florida’s Space Coast.