SpaceX Continues To Launch NASA's Crew-9 Mission In August

Empar astronaut for the Crew-9 mission (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA The launch schedule of Crew-9 with the Dragon spacecraft will not change. The four NASA astronauts will continue to be launched to the space station in August. On July 26, a day after SpaceX completed an investigative report regarding the failure of the Falcon 9 launch, NASA officials said that this mission will be launched no later than August 18. However, this schedule will be adjusted to the results of the test. Steveani, NASA's Commercial Crew Program Manager, said that the test phase on the Falcon 9 rocket would launch on July 31. In the test, NASA will pay attention to the modified results on the Falcon 9 rocket. "We will carry out strict certification for it,"ATuli, quoted from Spacenews. "We will examine it (modified results) and bring it to the program's control board, and we will make that base for Crew-9." Before the Crew-9 mission is implemented, SpaceX will launch several launches with Falcon 9. SpaceX has launched three Starlink satellite missions after the Federal Aviation Agency (FA) lifted the flight ban for Falcon 9.

With these launches, NASA will pay attention to whether the rocket can launch Dragon aircraft without problems. However, it seems that NASA has no doubts about Falcon 9's success even though the rocket had experienced anomalies. During an investigation into Falcon 9, NASA participated in observing its investigation and repair process. The US space agency praised SpaceX's very transparent actions and NASA believes SpaceX is capable of solving the Falcon 9 problem.