Miami Florida. – After 9 years of inactivity, this Wednesday, May 27, it would take place the first launch of a manned rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, but bad weather prevented the mission.
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Since 2011, the United States had opted for the Russian Soyuz system to transport American astronauts to and from the international space station, which is why the mission on Wednesday attracts so much attention because it is the reactivation of space travel from US territory.
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The historic mission, called Demo-2, was in charge of the private company SpaceX together with NASA and in it they went astronauts Bob Behnken, 49, and Doug Hurley, 53. Both are two experienced astronauts who should arrive at the International Space Station 19 hours after this launch.
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The astronauts had been in quarantine for the past 15 days and NASA, as well as SpaceX, who took extreme measures to ensure the safety and health of the astronauts, amid the pandemic that still plagues the state of Florida.
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Several factors, experts say, had to be considered for the launch to occur. These included no precipitation, lightning, and cloud both at the Kennedy Space Center and along the entire northeast coast, up to the North Atlantic.
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The flight was scheduled for 4:30 pm, worse at 4:19 pm he was suspended due to bad weather. The mission was postponed to next Saturday, May 30, at 3:22 pm ET.
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This will be the first launch of NASA astronauts, on a private spacecraft, since the space exploration program ended almost 10 years ago.
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