Bad weather: Start of “Crew Dragon” postponed to the ISS

Updated May 27, 2020, 10:44 pm

Historic SpaceX mission moved to the ISS 15 minutes before launch: The bad weather in Cape Canaveral (Florida) destroyed the manned space flight test by Elon Musk’s space and telecommunications company SpaceX.

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Due to bad weather conditions, the manned space flight test of two US astronauts has been postponed to the International Space Station. Around a quarter of an hour before the planned launch, the test was initially canceled on Wednesday, according to the US space agency Nasa. Dark clouds were visible over the Cape Canaveral spaceport in the US state of Florida and it was raining. According to the weather forecast, the chance of a start earlier had been 60 percent, like that NASA had communicated. A next attempt to start could take place on Saturday.

The US space travelers Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are to take off on a “Falcon 9” rocket in a “Crew Dragon” space capsule to the International Space Station – about nine years after astronauts last launched from the USA to the space station. The start was eagerly awaited worldwide. (br / dpa)