14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, docking with the station three hours later. The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov is scheduled to launch at 1:45 a.m. The delay won’t affect another crewed mission to the ISS. 29 NASA briefing about the Crew-1 mission just after the agency announced the delay to Oct. “For this critical launch, we’re happy to support NASA and any schedule that they need,” Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of build and flight reliability at SpaceX, said at a Sept. 31 to provide more time to wrap up certification work of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. NASA previously delayed the launch from Oct. The Crew-1 mission will transport NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, to the International Space Station for a six-month stay. Another Falcon 9, likely with a previously flown first stage, will launch a cargo Dragon spacecraft for NASA in late November or early December. That mission will also use a new Falcon 9 first stage. 10 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NASA said the issue with the Crew-1 mission will not delay another Falcon 9 launch, of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Earth observation satellite, scheduled for Nov. SpaceX has yet to reschedule the GPS 3 launch. 6 carrying 60 Starlink satellites using a booster making its third flight. After the GPS 3 scrub, SpaceX successfully launched another Falcon 9 Oct. The Falcon Heavy will be able to place more than two shuttle payloads in orbit in one launch at about 1/15 of the price of a single shuttle launch. She said an investigation into the problem is ongoing “and we should be a lot smarter within the coming week.”īoth the Crew-1 and the GPS 3 missions are using new Falcon 9 first stages that have not previously launched. “With the high cadence of missions SpaceX performs, it really gives us incredible insight into this commercial system and helps us make informed decisions about the status of our missions,” Kathy Lueders, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said in the agency statement.
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