25/08/2023 at 18:24 (Doha time)
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration “NASA” and the US Space Exploration Technologies Corporation “SpaceX” today announced the postponement of the launch of the “Crew-7 – Crew-7” mission to the International Space Station, until tomorrow, Saturday, after it was scheduled to be launched today.
And “SpaceX” indicated in a post on the “X” platform, previously Twitter, that the decision to postpone the launch came to give mission managers an additional opportunity to process any remaining work.
“The mission managers met and chose to delay the launch of the Creo-7 crew by 24 hours to allow more time to do some work,” said NASA spokesman Rob Navias.
The vehicle, which will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will carry NASA astronaut Jasmine Mogbili, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Russian Konstantin Borisov.
They are expected to spend six months on the International Space Station, replacing the current crew of four astronauts.
This will be SpaceX’s seventh mission to the space station for NASA, and it will be Elon Musk’s eleventh spaceflight mission.
It is noteworthy that the “Crew-6” mission launched on board the “Falcon 9” rocket from the “Kennedy Space Center” in the state of “Florida” last March, carrying four astronauts.
