The planned manned flight from SpaceX to the space station ISS has been postponed from Saturday to Sunday. The reason is the strong wind on the Florida coast, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said on Twitter. The Falcon 9 rocket with the capsule “Crew Dragon” from the private company SpaceX is supposed to transport four astronauts to the ISS.

NASA transmits start in livestream The new start of Cape Canaveral in Florida is now planned in the night from Sunday to Monday at 1: 27 in the morning Central European Time. NASA broadcasts the start in their live stream on NASA TV, further information and the current mission status can be found on the NASA press page. According to an entry in the blog of the SpaceX Crew 1 mission, the US military sees the chance of good start weather for the new date at 50 percent.

The Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will be on board as well as NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover. They are supposed to stay on the ISS for six months.

The joint mission “Crew-1” of NASA and the private company SpaceX is already the second manned flight of SpaceX to the ISS. In May of this year SpaceX had successfully brought two astronauts to the ISS and back to Earth as a demonstration flight.

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