The world’s first fully private crew to the International Space Station must wait at least another day to leave the laboratory in orbit after bad weather prevented a planned landing on Saturday (April 23).
NASA, SpaceX and the company intuitive spacewho supports your Ax quest 1, plans to separate the SpaceX Dragon carrying its four-man crew were canceled due to unacceptable high winds at spray sites off the coast of Florida. Mission managers were Aiming to disengage Saturday night before the delay.
“Concluding a weather briefing ahead of today’s planned landing, teams from NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX chose to cancel today’s docking attempt due to lower wind troughs that caused marginal high winds at the sprinkler sites,” according to NASA officials. Share in Saturday’s update. Axiom Mission 1 (Ax-1) crew now targets disengagement International Space Station 8:55 p.m. EDT on Sunday, April 24. “
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SpaceX’s Ax-1 mission It was released on April 8th To carry four commercial Axiom Space astronauts, three of whom are propelling passengers, on a short trip to the station. The crew includes Commander Michael Lopez Alegria, a former NASA astronaut. and pays passengers to Larry Connor, an American businessman; Mark Bathy, Canadian businessman; and Israeli investor and businessman Eitan Step.
Connor and Bathy Westby pay $55 million per trip. During the flight, the Ax-1 astronauts conducted a series of experiments, Mint helped NFTs at the stationI carried out educational outreach activities and they enjoyed the spaceflight experience.
The Ax-1 mission was initially expected to take about 10 days, eight of which were on the space station, but its duration was so Stretched after weather concerns The landing scheduled for Tuesday (April 19) was prevented. If the Ax-1 Dragon capsule manages to collapse late Sunday, it is expected to crash off the coast of Florida around 1:00 PM EDT (1700 GMT) on Monday, April 25.
Delays in the class of Ax-1 caused a bit of a traffic jam for the next professional NASA team to visit the space station. SpaceX is scheduled to launch this new crew on the Crew-4 mission on Tuesday (April 26) from NASA’s Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Crew-4 astronaut launches on a different SpaceX Dragon spacecraft have been suspended since mid-April due to the Ax-1 mission (currently using the station’s Crew-4 mission docking port) and delays in supplying the Test Supply System. The Space Launch That Made an Impact The Kennedy Space Center schedule for the Ax-1 and Crew-4 spacecraft was changed earlier this month.
NASA and SpaceX also plan to return four professional astronauts from the Crew-3 mission to the main space station after launching Crew-4 into the third Dragon capsule.
If all goes well, NASA will broadcast the dockings for the Ax-1 crew on Sunday, starting with a closed hatch between Dragon and the station at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT). Undocking coverage will begin at 8:30 PM EST (0030 GMT). You can watch both activities liveCourtesy of NASA Television.
Axiom Space will be bringing a live stream of the same SplashDown online, starting at 12:00 PM EST (1600 GMT) on Monday.
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