A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the crew capsule Endeavour sits on pad 39A after the launch try was scrubbed on the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Monday, February 27, 2023.
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Last-minute technical bother pressured SpaceX to name off Monday’s try and launch 4 astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.
The countdown was halted with simply two minutes remaining till liftoff from Kennedy Space Center. With only a cut up second to blast off, there was no time to take care of the problem, which concerned the engine ignition system.
SpaceX didn’t instantly say when it could strive once more. The subsequent try might come as early as Tuesday, though poor climate was forecast.
Strapped into the capsule atop the Falcon rocket had been two NASA astronauts, one Russian cosmonaut and one astronaut from the United Arab Emirates.
When knowledgeable by SpaceX that the gas would begin to be drained from the rocket, commander Stephen Bowen replied: “We’ll be sitting here waiting.” It was anticipated to take practically an hour.
Bowen and his crew — together with the primary astronaut from the United Arab Emirates assigned to a monthslong mission, Sultan al-Neyadi — will exchange one other SpaceX crew that flew to the house station in October.
