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The launch of a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS), originally scheduled for Sunday morning Belgian time, has been postponed by one day. Due to weather conditions, the launch will now be postponed to Monday morning at 4:53 am Belgian time. The American space agency NASA announced this on X.
The so-called Crew-8, consisting of three Americans and a Russian, would be transported from the famous Cape Canaveral in Florida to the ISS on board a Crew Dragon capsule from space company SpaceX of tech billionaire Elon Musk. It would be the first time since the start of the Russian war against Ukraine that astronauts from both countries flew into space together, despite enormous tensions between the US and Russia.
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NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, their colleague Jeanette Epps and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin will spend about six months on the ISS conducting research. It will be the first space flight for Epps, Dominick and Grebenkin. Barratt has visited the ISS twice before. There is currently a crew of seven people on board the space station.
2024-03-03 06:03:13
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