May 28, 2020, The Liberacy:- SpaceX, NASA’s mission to send astronauts to the International Space Station was halted on Wednesday 27th May 2020. SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk’s company was forced to abort the mission citing the “Bad Weather” conditions at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
The countdown was stopped 16 minutes before the launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Two astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were to be launched aboard the “Crew Dragon Capsule” on a 19-hour long journey to International Space Station (ISS).
The mission was to fuel up the nine years of drought in the Americas Human Space flight program, as the last Human Space flight launched from the soil of America of fellow Americans was in the year 2011. Until now, from 2011, American astronauts always hitch rode into orbit aboard Russia’s Soyuz Spacecraft.
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The weather conditions in Florida have been quite wet in recent days with the ON-OFF raining pattern. The National Weather Service also issued a Tornado Warning for the area. But, the most threatening part remained the Lightning Warnings.
The next launch date of the same mission aboard SpaceX Crew Dragon Capsule inside the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, has been announced. The new launch timing is 30th May 2020 at 03:22 (ET) that is 19:22 (UTC) from the same launch pad of Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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“We gave it a good try, but we just couldn’t get there,” said SpaceX spokesperson.
In the live feed, both the astronauts were seen sitting side by side in white uniforms inside the capsule as the crew finished unloading propellant from the rocket.
The US President Donald Trump along with first lady Melania Trump was already on Airforce One to Florida to witness the Launch. Airforce One merely arrived at Cape Canaveral.
Along with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA Chief Jim Bridenstine; Vice President of the USA Mike Pence with wife Karen were also present at the venue.
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