The 4 astronauts — from the U.S., Japan and France — will spend six months on the International Space Station.
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SpaceX on Wednesday bumped its subsequent astronaut launch by a day due to dangerously excessive waves and wind offshore.
Liftoff is now scheduled for early Friday morning from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, when higher weather is predicted.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule has the flexibility to abort the launch all the best way to orbit in case of an emergency. That’s why good weather is required not solely on the Florida launch website, however all the best way up the East Coast and throughout the North Atlantic to Ireland.
The 4 astronauts — from the U.S., Japan and France — will spend six months on the International Space Station.
This will probably be SpaceX’s third launch of astronauts for NASA in lower than a 12 months. NASA turned to non-public corporations as soon as the shuttle program ended to haul not solely provides to the house station, but additionally folks. SpaceX started delivering cargo in 2012 and flew its first crew up final May.
