SPACE LAUNCH LIVE
Various Networks, 2:00 p.m. ET
This space launch from Cape Canaveral, the first such U.S.-based mission in a decade, was originally scheduled for last Wednesday, in the late afternoon – but I didn’t even list it in my Best Bets that day, because I grew up in Florida, and the idea of a late afternoon in late May without a rainstorm just seemed hugely against the odds. And yes, as easily predicted, cloud cover and rain scrubbed the launch that day – but the private-government partnership of SpaceX and NASA has rescheduled it today, a few hours earlier. I’m just as doubtful this one will work, given the general weather (and the specific weather, too, as pictured). But if the weather doesn’t interfere again, Discovery Channel and the Science Channel will provide live coverage, and it could be shown on CNN and MSNBC and Fox News Channel as well, but only if the metaphorical storm clouds over Minneapolis clear up for the day.