{"id":1498,"date":"2020-05-29T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T08:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2020-05-30T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T08:49:56","slug":"spacex-postpones-launch-of-two-nasa-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/spacex-postpones-launch-of-two-nasa-astronauts\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Postpones Launch of Two NASA Astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Elon\nMusk’s company delays astronaut launch for NASA due to bad weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Wednesday\u2019s planned lit off was delayed due to weather, SpaceX now plans to l<\/a>aunch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday at 03:22 p.m. Eastern time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpaceX first-ever crewed mission, a test flight to the International Space Station called\u00a0Demo-2, was scheduled to launch in the afternoon of May 27 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida<\/a>. However, bad weather has made them postpone that plan, pushing the liftoff back to Saturday, May 30, at the earliest, NASA and SpaceX officials announced. A backup launch date is also available on Sunday, May 31, and on Tuesday, June 2, as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is a spacecraft designed to fly astronauts on round trips to the International Space Station for NASA. It will lift off from Pad 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at Port Canaveral. The weather forecast on Saturday is currently 60% go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpaceX\nwas picked by NASA as one of two companies – Boeing was the other- to fly\nastronaut missions to the International Space Station. Crew Dragon is a crewed\nversion of SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft, an unpiloted vehicle that has been\nmaking resupply flights to the station for NASA since 2012. Crew Dragon launches\ninto space on a Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX’s booster. Crew Dragon will take two astronauts\nBob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the space station and back but the capsule\nitself can fit up to seven people in all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crew of Demo-2 mission are veteran NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley and both men have flown to space multiple times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike\nCargo Dragon, the Crew Dragon is designed with an emergency abort system that would\nseparate the capsule from its rocket in the event of a launch emergency. The\nsystem was demonstrated in a successful test earlier this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 SpaceX’s Crew Dragon will take about 19 hours\nto reach the space station. After liftoff, it will take Crew Dragon about 12\nminutes to reach its initial orbit. The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket will\nreturn to Earth on a drone ship for future reuse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An exact\ndate for Crew Dragon’s return to Earth for the Demo-2 mission was not released\nby NASA and SpaceX. What we do know the mission will last at least one month,\nand most likely up to four months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The launch of the two NASA astronauts on a rocket built by\nSpaceX would mark the start of an era of human spaceflight that extends beyond\nnational space agencies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Space<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk’s company delays astronaut launch for NASA due to bad weather. After Wednesday\u2019s planned lit off was delayed due to weather, SpaceX now plans to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday at 03:22 p.m. Eastern time. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1502,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}