Less than an hour before the scheduled liftoff, SpaceX decided to delay the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, which was set to transport four astronauts to replace the stranded NASA crew members, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. NASA and SpaceX announced that today’s attempt to launch the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station has been canceled due to a hydraulic system problem with a ground support clamp arm for the Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
NASA is now targeting a launch for no earlier than 7:03 PM EDT (4:33 AM IST) on Friday, March 14. “Mission managers convened this evening and chose to postpone the launch attempt originally scheduled for Thursday, March 13, due to anticipated high winds and rain along the Dragon’s flight path,” the agency stated.
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NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, along with JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, have successfully exited the Dragon spacecraft, which remains secure.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon was scheduled to bring back Astronaut Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore by March 19, assuming everything went smoothly. NASA had planned for a faster turnaround for the Crew Dragon to reduce the consumption of resources at the International Space Station.
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