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The reason for the postponement of the flight to the International Space Station of the crewed ship Crew Dragon was bad weather.
The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) postponed the launch of the second crew of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon manned spacecraft on the International Space Station (ISS) for one day, scheduled for November 14.
The agency’s website reported this.
The launch was supposed to take place at 7:49 p.m. EDT (1:49 Kiev time on November 15). The start was postponed to 7:27 pm on Sunday, November 15 (1:27 on November 16, Kiev time).
NASA explained that the wind was the cause of the transfer, which could affect the return process of the first stage of the launch vehicle. It is planned to be captured and used in 2021 for another Crew Dragon release.
“The launch vehicle is expected to land on the rescue craft approximately nine minutes after launch,” the US space agency said.
Crew Dragon Crew (Crew-1) includes NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi. The astronauts will travel to the ISS from Launch Complex 39A in downtown Kennedy, Florida.
They will join the members of Expedition 64 to the ISS, which consists of station commander Sergei Ryzhikov, cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins.
This launch was originally scheduled for October 31, but in mid-October NASA decided to postpone the mission due to an investigation into a problem with the turbo pump of one of the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage engines while trying to launch the GPS satellite III-04.
Crew-1 is one of six SpaceX missions planned to send humans to the ISS as part of ongoing contact with NASA and its Commercial Crew Program, which aims to support commercial space transportation companies. This is the first operational flight of Crew Dragon since SpaceX’s first manned demo mission Demo-2.
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