Due to a storm in the Northeast, SpaceX postponed their launch of four astronauts and cargo from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:33AM ET. The company will now attempt this Wednesday morning around 11:30AM ET with no delays.
SpaceX, a private space exploration company, has postponed the launch of four more astronauts to the International Space Station due to a storm. The storm is expected to last for three days.
(CBSLA/CNS) HAWTHORNE — Due to bad weather, SpaceX has postponed the launch of four additional NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.
On Saturday, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was supposed to launch from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:21 p.m. pacific time.
Due to a severe storm system increasing winds and waves in the Atlantic Ocean along the Crew Dragon flight route for the Oct. 31 launch attempt, the @NASA @SpaceX #Crew3 mission has been rescheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 1:10 a.m. ET. For further information, go to: pic.twitter.com/Z2u0nFRmC6 https://t.co/WdCdLAKnd4 pic.twitter.com/WdCdLAKnd4
30 October 2021 — NASA Commercial Crew (@Commercial Crew)
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The Hawthorne-based corporation is now seeking a backup launch window, which opens Tuesday at 10:10 p.m. California time, owing to a major storm in the Northeast that is creating heavy winds and waves in the Atlantic Ocean.
30 OCTOBER, CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon sit on launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, after their planned flight was postponed on October 30, 2021. Due to unfavorable weather circumstances along the flight route, the Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station will not launch until early Wednesday. (Photo courtesy of Getty Images/Joe Raedle) )
NASA astronauts Raja Chari, mission commander, Tom Marshburn, pilot, and Kayla Barron, mission specialist, will fly aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Endurance. Matthias Maurer, a mission expert with the European Space Agency, will also be on board.
As part of SpaceX’s third official human journey to the space station, the astronauts have been designated Crew-3. The four-member crew of the previous manned SpaceX trip, Crew-2, who have been onboard the station since April will meet them when they arrive.
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NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet are scheduled to return to Earth in early November aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon module Endeavour.
McArthur, a Northern California native, has a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from UCLA and a PhD in oceanography from UC San Diego, where she worked as a researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
In November 2020, SpaceX sent its first official crew to the International Space Station on the Resilience Dragon spacecraft.
Last summer, SpaceX sent two people to the International Space Station in the Endeavour capsule from Cape Canaveral, marking the first human mission to launch from American soil since the Space Shuttle program was discontinued. However, the voyage was billed as a demonstration flight to demonstrate the Crew Dragon spacecraft’s capabilities.
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The “who is on the iss right now” is a question that many people have been asking. The “ISS” is the International Space Station and SpaceX postponed the launch of four more astronauts to space station due to a storm in North Eastern U.S.
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