(ORDO NEWS) — The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station was delayed on Monday due to problems with ground systems.
The SpaceX Dragon Crew-6 mission was scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
But just two minutes before liftoff, the launch was canceled
“Today’s Crew6 launch was canceled due to a problem with ground systems,” NASA posted on social media.
Shortly thereafter, SpaceX announced that it had begun unloading fuel from the rocket. The launch will be postponed to a later date.
Americans Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russian Andrei Fedyaev and Sultan al-Neyadi from the United Arab Emirates will spend six months on the orbital station.
Neyadi, 41, will become the second UAE astronaut to go into space. His compatriot Hazzaa al-Mansouri made an eight-day flight in 2019. Neyadi said that the upcoming mission is a great honor for him.
Hoburg and Fedyaev will also make their first space flights. Fedyaev is the second Russian cosmonaut to fly to the ISS aboard a SpaceX rocket.
NASA astronauts regularly fly to the station on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
While aboard the ISS, the 6 crew members will conduct dozens of experiments, including studying how materials burn in microgravity and examining the functions of the heart, brain and cartilage.
This is the sixth crew that will take SpaceX to the ISS. The Endeavor capsule has already flown into space three times. NASA pays SpaceX to fly astronauts to the ISS about every six months.
The space agency expects this crew to spend several days with the four members of the fifth crew, who have been on the ISS since October. The fifth crew will then return to Earth.
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