NASA says saunch of SpaceX Crew-7 Mission rescheduled to Saturday

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25 Aug 2023, 18:28 GMT+10

MOSCOW, 25th August, 2023 (WAM) -- NASA said Thursday that the launch of the SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, has been rescheduled to 26th August from 25th August, according to Sputnik.

"NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Friday, Aug. 25, launch opportunity for the agency's Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station. Launch now is targeted at 3:27 am Saturday, Aug. 26, for SpaceX's seventh crew rotation mission to the microgravity laboratory for NASA," NASA said in a statement on its website.

The launch, initially planned for 15th August, has already been postponed several times.

The Crew-7 launch will carry NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, NASA has previously confirmed.

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