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Washington, November 14 (IANS) NASA and SpaceX are now targeting Sunday for the launch of the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) due to onshore winds and the readiness of first stage restoration.
Flight Crew-1 was previously scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 on Saturday at 7.49pm EST from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The decision to delay the launch was made after the teams completed the main final overhaul for the mission on Friday.
The crew-1 is the first crew rotation flight of a US commercial spacecraft with astronauts to the space station after the official human classification certification of the spacecraft system.
After the review, NASA and SpaceX have agreed to aim for launch at 7:27 pm EST on Sunday.
The mission will take NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi to the space station for six months in the Crew Dragon spacecraft, which will be launched on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. from Launch Complex 39A.
The Crew Dragon is expected to dock at the space station around 11pm Monday, NASA said.
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