March 12 (Upi) – NASA and SpaceX on Wednesday night were scolding the launch of Falcon 9 on a flight designed to extract from the international astronauts of the space station Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who spent nine months in orbit due to technical concerns about their Boeing capsule.
About half an hour before the scheduled launch at 7:48 pm, EDT of PAD 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, the mission was canceled due to a problem with the hydraulic system with the hand of ground support, NASA said.
The launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 was scattered on Wednesday and no new date was announced. Photo by Pat Benic/Upi
NASA said later on Wednesday that they were aimed at the launch not earlier than 19:03 Friday, with docking for 11:30 pm Saturday. Miss managers decided to “remove from an attempt to launch” on Thursday due to heavy winds and predicted rainfall on the flight of a dragon.
Another SpaceX flight started later on Wednesday from Florida. The second Falcon 9 rose at 10:35 am from the nearby start complex 40 of Cape Canaveral Space Fort Station. This mission is for 21 Starlink satellites, including 13 with direct cell options. This flight, which was delayed three times, landed 8 1/2 minutes later on the drone ship’s shortage of Gravitas.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday sits at the launched complex-39A in preparation for a ferry of the crew-10 from four to the International Space Station. Photo by Pat Benic/Upi
SpaceX or NASA did not give details about the hydraulic problem of the pad for the earlier flight.
SPACEX NASA CREW-10 Mission members are coming out of operations and the building of the cashier to get on the Dragon capsule at the top of the Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. Photo by Pat Benic/Upi
The four members who were attached to their places aboard the Dragon capsule: two NASA astronauts, commander Anne McLain and pilot Nicole Ayers, along with Cosmonau Roskosmos Kiril Peskov and the Japanese Aerospace Astronaut Takuya Aerospace Agency.
The crew members rode the Black Teslas for the rocket. Elon Musk owns SpaceX and is CEO of Tesla.
The members of the Mission of the Spacex NASA CREW-10 appear outside the operations and the building for the Cassie to embark on the Dragon capsule at the top of the Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. Photo by Pat Benic/Upi
There was at least 95% chance of favorable weather conditions, according to the staff of the launch of meteorological conditions with the 45th meteorological squadron of the Cape Canaveral Space Fort.
“Everyone on board! The #Crew10 crew has already climbed and completed its communication checks in the Dragon @Spacex spacecraft, preparing for the launch at 7:48 pm in @Space_station,” NASA poses at X.
Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will return to Earth after spending nine months at the ISS. File Photo by Joe Marino/Upi
Starting is a joint NASA and SpaceX mission.
In addition to Wilmore and Williams, Nick Hagg and the Cosmonout of Roscosmos Alexander Gorbunov are also designed to return to Earth.
Roscosmos Cosmonau Cyril Pesco watches members of the astronaut family at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. Photo by Pat Benic/Upi
NASA said in an online statement on Thursday that the four returning astronauts have completed more than 900 hours of studies, including over 150 “unique scientific experiments and technological demonstrations during their stay aboard the orbiting lab”.
Wilmore and Williams have been in space since June 2024 after participating in the first test flight of Boeing’s Starliner crew.
NASA astronaut Nicole Ayers races as he exits the operations and building of the cash register to get on a dragon capsule at the top of the Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. Photo by Pat Benic/Upi
Their mission aboard the ISS had to take only a week, but the Boeing capsule intended to take them home, experienced malfunctions and leakage, so NASA and Boeing chose to leave them in space as their craft was successfully returned unmanned.
NASA announced in August that it plans to return Williams and Wilmore to the ground to the SpaceX vehicle in February. But NASA said the mission would slow down by the end of March due to problems with a new Crew Dragon Capsule SpaceX capsule.
Japanese astronaut Takuya onishi is coming out of the operations and the building of the cashier to get on the dragon capsule at the top of the Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. Photo by Pat Benic/Upi
“This is my happy place,” Williams said in September. “I like to be here in space. It’s just fun. You know that you do something that works every day – quote, undeniable – you can do it upside down. You can do it aside, so it adds a little different perspective.”
The two astronauts eventually merge with the team that is already aboard the ISS, helping them with their mission.
NASA Anne McClain astronaut emerges from the operations and the building of the cashier to get on a dragon capsule at the top of the Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday. Photo by Pat Benic/Upi
The new crew will spend several months aboard the ISS by conducting space paths, research demonstrations and experiments in favor of humanity and deep space.