Friday? Maybe? A team of four was supposed to head to the International Space Station on Wednesday, but NASA and Spacets used the planned attempt to launch the agency's crew's mission as a result of the problem of a hydraulic system for the Falcon 9 rocket support. Report the space agency. Then, on Thursday, Post NASA That forecast high winds and precipitation meant that Friday was the earliest that the mission could continue.
SpaceX planned to launch a spacecraft crew's mission with a dragon with the help of the Falcon 9 rocket. This is part of NASA's commercial team program, which relies on SpaceX to the ferry of astronauts to and from ISS.
What happened to the launch of the “SpaceX” crew?
NASA was planning the spacecraft elevator for 19:48 ET Wednesday from launching Complex 39a at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch complex has shown a history dating from the era of the Apollo Moon program of the 1960s.
However, the problem with the hydraulic system means that NASA's astronauts, Ann McClane and Nicole Ayers, the Air Force Research Agency in Japan, astronaut Takuja Onishi and Roskosmos Cosmonaut Kiril Peskov had to get out of the spacecraft. Plans to try again on Thursday were lifted due to the weather, and now we see on Friday.
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Friday's launch time: How do you watch
NASA reports that the next launch opportunity is not earlier than 19:03 pm Friday, March 14th from the next complex 39A, awaiting the review of the question that stopped the start. Launch coverage will start at 15:00 on NASA Plus.
If this launch occurs on Friday, the craft will join the ISS at 11:30 on Saturday.
Returning to “stuck” astronauts
The crew-10 has a little more driving on it than a typical mission of rotating the crew. NASA Sunita's Astronauts “Sunni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore It has become the long -term inhabitants of the ISS after riding the Starliner's crew capsule station. The crew capsule encountered technical problems and was returned to Earth without astronauts.
Williams and Wilmore ISS remain unexpectedly stretched for more than eight months. The arrival of the crew-10 means that Vilms, Wilmore, NASA astronaut, Nick Hague and Roskosmos Cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov will be able to hand over the duties to the newcomers and return to Earth of A. SpaceX Dragon sent in September. That dragon arrived with two open places for the Starliner's crew.
If the launch on Friday happened on time, crew-9 members, including many delayed Williams and Wilmore, would leave the space station no earlier than Wednesday, March 19, in anticipation of Splashdown locations near the shore of Florida.
Both astronauts have insisted they do not feel captured, although that term has been widely applied to them in the news and social media. But first, the crew-10 will have to arrive.