NASA has elapsed the pelting of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission until early- to mid-November, the bureau play-act Saturday. The mission eventually will catenate three NASA astronauts as well-built as an astronaut from Japan's JAXA vastness bureau to the International Vastness Station.
Originally appointed for October 31st, the planned six-month mission was elapsed to relent time to unmannerliness issues with the first-stage engine gas generators on the Falcon 9 rocket, NASA said in a statement. When it does launch, American astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, as well-built as Shannon Walker, plus Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will be aboard SpaceX's first operational crewed mission to the ISS.
We're now targeting NET early-to-mid November for pelting of @NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the @Space_Station. The actress time will relent SpaceX to unmannerliness an ungentlemanly ascertainment during a recent non-NASA pelting attempt. More: # pic.twitter.com/YLq1Tb4LfN
-- Kathy Lueders (@KathyLueders) October 10, 2020
Crew-1 is between six planned missions SpaceX plans to accelerate to the ISS underneath a contract with NASA, awarded in 2014 as partage of the Bartering Coiffure Program that brought private sector companies into the US vastness program.
SpaceX's first Coiffure Dragon flight, the DM-2, or Demo-2, was a test mission that brought NASA astronauts Doug Hurley as well-built as Bob Behnken to the ISS in May for a two-month visit. The Coiffure Dragon docked with the ISS as well-built as returned sensitively to Earth on Formalism 2nd, giving NASA the data it needed to certify regular trips to as well-built as from the ISS with astronauts aboard in the future.
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