A last-minute technical issue forced SpaceX to cancel Monday’s attempt to launch four astronauts to a station outer space International for NASA.
The countdown has come to a halt with just two minutes left until liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center. With only a split second left to go, there was no time to deal with the problem, which was in the engine’s ignition system.
While not announced SpaceX Next attempt, which could be as early as Tuesday morning, despite the bad weather forecast.
It is noteworthy that two of the four astronauts from NASA, in addition to a Russian astronaut and another from the Emirates, were strapped into the capsule atop the Falcon rocket.
And when SpaceX announced that fuel would start to come out of the rocket, team leader Stephen Bowen replied, “We’ll just sit here waiting.” While it was expected that it would take about an hour.
It is noteworthy that Bowen and his crew – including Sultan Al Neyadi, the first Emirati and Arab astronaut assigned to a month-long space mission – will replace the SpaceX crew that went to the space station in October last year.