The next SpaceX astronaut mission for NASA will begin early Thursday morning, March 2, if all goes according to plan. Elon Musk’s company originally planned to launch the Crew-6 mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to the International Space Station (ISS) early Monday, February 27, but a problem with the ground system eventually caused problems. caused. Countdown

NASA officials said in an updated report that mission crews were unable to confirm that the ground system fully stores triethylaluminium triethylboron (TEA-TEB), the ignition source of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket’s first nine Merlin engines. in new tab) posted shortly after brushing

The weather isn’t looking good for the Tuesday, Feb. 28 test, so SpaceX and NASA are now looking at the next available window – the 12:34 PM ET (5:34 GMT) test on Thursday, “pending resolution of a technical issue, which is preventing Monday’s launch,” agency officials wrote in an update. As the name suggests, Crew-6 is the sixth operational mission SpaceX will launch to the ISS for NASA. This will be the ninth astronaut flight for the company and the fourth for the Dragon Endeavor capsule.

Four people will go to Endeavor orbit with Crew-6: NASA astronauts Steven Bowen and Woody Hoburg, cosmonaut Andriy Fedyaev, and Sultan Al Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates, who will be the first to conduct a six-month crew rotation from the UAE. on the ISS. The four will replace the four astronauts on the SpaceX Crew-5 mission, which will return to Earth about five days after Crew-6 arrives at the orbiting laboratory.