NASA and SpaceX delay the flight to the International Space Station due to bad weather

. related delay “Great Storm System”. On Saturday, October 30, NASA and SpaceX announced the postponement of the launch of the rocket that was scheduled to send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew of the Crew-3 mission was scheduled to take off on Sunday aboard the Crew Dragon capsule, named Endurance Attached to a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida (USA).

It will finally launch on Wednesday at 1:10 a.m. local time, and Crew-3 will arrive at the space station that same evening at approximately 11 p.m.NASA said. They will then move to “Short handover with astronauts who traveled to the station as part of an agency mission called SpaceX Crew-2”Including Frenchman Thomas Bisquet. If launch turns out to be impossible again on Wednesday, there is “Remedy Possibility” The next day, SpaceX said.

The Crew-3 mission, the third regular manned mission offered by SpaceX on behalf of NASA, is part of a multi-billion dollar contract signed between Elon Musk and the US agency. The Crew-3 crew will spend six months in orbit and conduct research aimed at facilitating future exploration of deep space, or bringing useful knowledge to life on Earth.

The astronauts will also conduct a spacewalk to complete the renovation of the International Space Station’s solar panels. They will host two tourism missions in parallel: the Japanese brought in by the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, and then passengers from the SpaceX Axiom mission.