Launchpad has been forced to fail Space x To postpone the flight to the International Space Station (ISS), which had to lift two NASA astronauts who have been trapped in orbit for nine months.
Falcon 9 rockets had four crew members when it had to remove the elevator off from Cape Canada, Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.
According to NasaEarthly staff raised concerns about the functionality of strong winds, rain and a major hydraulic system, which is less than four hours less than four hours from the scheduled elevator.
Mission experts, combined with Jacksa (Japan Aerospace Explosion Agency), NASA's astronaut's commander Ann McK Klein, Pilot Nicole Aires, Jacksa (Japan Aerospace Explusion Agency), astronauts Takia Anexy and Rososomos Cosmos Kasmos Kasmovskovs and Niles. Get out.
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Engineers reviewed the rocket's hydraulics used to release one of the two weapons by claping the rocket into its auxiliary structure. This structure needs to be tilt before the elevator.
The crew on the ship, who had already joined his flight capsule when identifying the problem, has to reach ISS before Booch Vilmor and Sunny Williams Can go home after almost a year in space.
NASA's Boeing staff, Flight Test Commander Boch Vilmor (L) and Pilot Sunny Williams, Cape Canvirial on May 6, 2024, went out of operations and checkout building in Fala. The astronauts are going to a United Launch Station for a United Launch Station for Boeing Starlener Space Launch for Boeing Starlener Space Launch, for a United Launch Staff.
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The final decision to cancel the flight was an hour left in the countdown. Officials later confirmed that the launch would be delayed at least Friday.
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Vilmor and Williams were sent to the International Space Station on a week -long mission last June but they were not returned to Earth when their Boeing Star Liner Capsule suffered a series of malfunction. In August, NASA understood the spacecraft Unsafe for travelSpaceX developed a rescue mission, leaving the couple to be comfortable in ISS.
However, SpaceX delayed the launch of its staff's dragon spacecraft as it needed additional preparations.
As a result, NASA chose to send an old capsule, which was launched on Wednesday with NASA's astronaut Ann McCullin and Nicole Aires, with the astronauts of the Japan Aerospace Explorus Agency, Takai Anexy and Rosmos Cosmonite Kerriel Peskov.
It is expected that NASA's Space X person -10 will now begin the ISS journey on Friday at 7pm.
Williams and Vilmor, along with Rosmos Cosmonate Alexander Gorbonov, will leave the space station on the same ship, on Wednesday, March 19.
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