NASA and SpaceX have decided to postpone until Saturday the launch of the Crew-7 mission, the seventh manned mission of the US space administration to the International Space Station (ISS), it was announced this Friday.
Initially scheduled for 3:50 a.m. (8:50 a.m. in Lisbon) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, United States, the launch was postponed to Saturday, at 3:27 a.m. (8:27 a.m. in Lisbon), reported the NASA on social media. .
The Crew-7 mission, the seventh crewed mission to the ISS by NASA and SpaceX, will be led by astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, selected by NASA in 2017, and Andreas Mogensen, from the European Space Agency (ESA).
In addition, astronauts Satoshi Furukawa, from the Japanese agency JAXA, and Konstantin Borisov, from the Russian Roscosmos agency, will also travel on the ship.
NASA did not provide the reasons for the postponement of the mission’s launch.
The SpaceX company, owned by businessman Elon Musk, also informed through social networks of the postponement and the new date and time scheduled for the launch, and guaranteed that both the vehicles and the crew are “ready to fly.”
Without clarifying the reasons for the postponement, the company said the new date will give the teams additional time “to complete and discuss the analysis.”
Source: TSF
