NASA announced that the launch of the Crew-12 mission would be postponed. This expedition mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was supposed to be carried out on Wednesday, February 11.
Weather review results show that launch conditions are not possible along the flight path. Now, the launch date of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts has been updated to Thursday, February 12.
Weather conditions will continue to be closely monitored by the NASA team until launch day arrives. If the weather still does not improve on the date that has been determined, the team has prepared a backup launch opportunity on Friday, February 13.
The four crew members, consisting of NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos cosmonauts, are currently still undergoing quarantine procedures. They will wait at the Kennedy Space Center until the next launch window opens again.
Crew-12 is the 12th manned rotation mission carried out by NASA and SpaceX. Elon Musk's company will bring the astronauts selected as a crew on the Dragon spacecraft launched with the Falcon 9 rocket.
While on the ISS, the four astronauts will carry out various scientific research and demonstrations of the latest technology. All of these experiments are carried out to support human exploration missions to the moon and Mars.
For more than two decades, the ISS has been a place to conduct research that cannot be done on Earth's surface. This facility is very important for NASA to understand the physical challenges of humans in long-term space flight.
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