Quoted from Reuters, Tuesday (2/11/2021), NASA did a delay in sending astronauts to the ISS, Monday, November 1, 2021 yesterday. However, NASA did not disclose the reason for the delay.
NASA said the issue was not a medical emergency and unrelated to COVID-19, but the space agency declined to elaborate on the problem or say which astronauts were the constraint.
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The launch, which was originally scheduled for Sunday 31 October 2021 but was later postponed to Wednesday 3 November 2021 due to unfavorable weather conditions.
“Now the rocket launch to send astronauts has been rescheduled for Saturday (6 November 2021) night,” said NASA.
The last time NASA delayed the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis was in 1990 due to medical problems. The launch was delayed because mission commander John Creighton fell ill.
The SpaceX-built vehicle, which will fly this weekend, consists of a Crew Dragon capsule perched atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket will launch at 11:36 p.m. Saturday, November 6, 2021, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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If all goes well, three US astronauts and a European Space Agency (ESA) crew will arrive 22 hours later and dock with the space station 250 miles (400 km) above Earth to begin a six-month science mission aboard the space laboratory.
Join the three astronauts mission NASA , flight commander Raja Chari (44), mission pilot Tom Marshburn (61), mission specialist Kayla Barron (34), and German astronaut Matthias Maurer (51) an ESA mission specialist.
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