Bad weather: Start of “Crew Dragon” postponed to the ISS – research and technology – knowledge

This was announced by 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 had previously been 60 percent, as NASA had announced. A next attempt to start could take place on Saturday.

The US space travelers Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are supposed to take off with a “Falcon 9” rocket in a “Crew Dragon” space capsule to the International Space Station – about nine years after astronauts last started from the USA to the space station. The flight is operated on behalf of NASA by the SpaceX company of the entrepreneur Elon Musk. The start was eagerly awaited worldwide.

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