The latest private-sector space mission is launching today

The launch from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida is scheduled for 5:33 p.m. EST on Friday, December 4, 2015 with a 30-minute launch window. Another launch attempt is set for Friday.

Similar inclement conditions scrubbed Thursday’s first attempt to launch the 194-foot United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft.

It’s another no-go for the first space station supply run in months from the U.S. (NYSE:BA) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE:LMT), was scheduled to launch yesterday at 22:55 GMT.

A privately built Cygnus supply craft bound for the International Space Station will get a second chance to launch today (Dec. 4) after bad weather foiled an attempted liftoff yesterday.

Today’s weather outlook does not appear to be much better, with only a 30 percent chance of favorable conditions at launch time. HoloLens augmented-reality goggles to assist astronauts aboard the space station. Orbital ATK bought another company’s rocket, the veteran Atlas V, for this supply mission.

Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket explodes 6 seconds after liftoff, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, in Virginia.

Be Civil – It’s OK to have a difference in opinion but there’s no need to be a jerk. Add in a lost Russian cargo ship in April, and the cupboards in orbit have suffered.

(AP Photo/John Raoux). A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands ready for launch with cargo for delivery to the International Space Station on launch complex 41at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, in Cape Canaveral, F…

“The winds were just a couple of knots too high, so we just didn’t feel comfortable launching tonight”, said Vernon Thorp, the NASA programs manager for United Launch Alliance, whose Atlas V rocket is carrying the Orbital payload aloft.

The two companies have split a $3.6 billion NASA flight contract and are competing with Sierra Nevada Corp. for a new, $3.5 billion deal that is expected to be awarded in January.

Orbital’s newest Cygnus capsule – named after the swan constellation – holds food, clothes, Christmas presents, spacewalking gear, high-pressure nitrogen and oxygen tanks for the air supply, and science experiments.