The launch of the Ax-1 special space mission was delayed by 24 hours

“TheAfter completing a meteorological briefing ahead of today’s planned launch, the NASA, Axiom Space and SpaceX teams have chosen to cancel it due to the depression causing marginal high winds at the landing site,” NASA announced, citing EFE.

According to the new schedule, which is subject to change, SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavor spacecraft, with the four members of the mission organized by Axiom Space in Texas, will begin its return trip to Earth Sunday night, one day later than scheduled.

According to Axiom and SpaceX, the controlled crash of the spacecraft on the high seas is happening on Monday.

This changes launch plans for the Falcon 9 rocket, which will put SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom into space, which, along with three NASA astronauts and one from the European Space Agency, is bound for the International Space Station (ISS).

The launch will take place on April 27, if there are no other changes, and the spacecraft is expected to arrive at the International Space Station the next day.

Crew-4 mission personnel are Commander Kjell Lindgren, Pilot Robert Hines and Specialist Jessica Watkins, all from NASA, as well as Italian Specialist Samantha Cristoforetti from the European Space Agency.

Members of the Ax-1 mission, the first entirely private mission to reach the International Space Station, are Hispanic-American Michael Lopez Alegria and businessmen Larry Connor (USA), Mark Bathy (Canada) and Eitan Stipe (Israel), who paid, according to US media, $55 million each to join the mission.

SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavor capsule began its journey on April 8 at the tip of a Falcon rocket, which lifted off from Cape Canaveral and arrived at EEI the next day.

Dragon Freedom cannot begin its journey if the Harmony unit is occupied, which is currently the case with Endeavor, which was supposed to return to Earth on April 19.

The crew of the Ax-1 conducted scientific experiments, educational and commercial activities on the EEI.

Authorities say the crew has plenty of supplies to stay long at the station.

SpaceX has seven landing areas for Dragon missions, four in the Gulf of Mexico and three off the coast of Florida.

The company owns two salvage vessels, which are divided between the Gulf and Atlantic regions for the return of each crew.

Axiom Space was founded in 2016 with the goal of creating the first commercial space station, and its first module is expected to launch in 2024.

Prior to the Axiom space mission, SpaceX had already flown astronauts from NASA and its European counterpart, ESA, to the International Space Station, replacing the Russian long-haul transport provided by the Russian space agency Roscosmos’ Soyuz.

On April 2, Roscosmos announced it would make “concrete proposals” for when to end cooperation on the International Space Station, after Western counterparts refused to lift sanctions on Russian companies in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.

On December 8, eccentric Japanese millionaire Yusaku Maezawa flew to EEI for a 12-day stay, thanks to a partnership between Roscosmos and Space Adventures, a US company that exclusively sells flights aboard the Soyuz spacecraft to the “home” of astronauts in orbit. ground .

The International Space Station is the result of a partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency, Roscosmos and their Canadian counterparts, the Canadian Space Agency and Japan’s JAXA.

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