Maybe Thursday instead? A crew of four was set to go to the International Space Station on Wednesday, but NASA and SpaceX scrubbed the planned launch attempt from the agency’s crew-10 mission due to a hydraulic system problem with a ground support commission for the Falcon 9 rocket reported Space Agency.
SpaceX had planned to launch the crew-10 mission on a dragon room vessel with an assist from a Falcon 9 rocket. This is part of NASA’s commercial crew that depends on SpaceX to ferry astronauts to and from ISS.
What happened to SpaceX Crew-10 launch?
NASA had targeted Liftoff to 19:48 on a Wednesday from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch complex has a great story that goes back to the era of the Apollo Moon program in the 1960s.
But the hydraulic system question means that NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov had to leave the dragon space and have to try again on Thursday.
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Thursday’s launch stiming: How to see
NASA reports that the next available launch option is not earlier than 1 p.m. 19.26 A Thursday from Launch Complex 39A, pending review of the problem that stopped launch. Launching cover begins at 1 p.m. 15.25 on NASA+.
Should this launch happen on Thursday, the craft will dock with ISS at. 23:30 on Friday. It looks pretty good, weather -wise.
“The US Space Force 45. Weather Squadron predicts greater than 95% favorable forecast for conditions around the launch site,” NASA said in his new statement. “Team also monitors weather conditions along the Dragon’s Spacecraft Flight Road.”
Return by ‘Stranded’ astronauts
The Crew-10 has a little more riding on it than a typical herd rotation mission. NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore was notorious notorious with long-term ISS residents after driving to the station on a test mission for Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule. The herd capsule encountered technical problems and was sent back to Earth without the astronauts.
Williams and Wilmore’s ISS remain unexpectedly stretched out for over eight months. Crew-10’s arrival agents Willams, Wilmore, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will be able to hand out ISS obligations to the new ones and return to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon sent up in September. This dragon arrived with two open seats to the Starliner crew journey home.
If the launch on Thursday happens on time, the crew would, including the very delayed Williams and Wilmore, leave the space station earlier than at 1 p.m. 9.05 March 17, pending weather at the Splashdown locations off the coast of Florid.
Both astronauts have insisted that they do not feel stranded, though this term has been widely applied to them in news stories and social media. But first, crew-10 has to arrive.