SpaceX’s next astronaut launch has been pushed back by at least 24 hours. The company was counting down to launch the four-person Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA in the early hours of Friday (Aug. 25) from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. But now, that’s not going to happen. “NASA and SpaceX are standing down from the Friday, Aug. 25, launch opportunity for the agency’s Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station,” NASA officials said in an emailed statement Thursday night (Aug. 24). “Launch now is targeted at 3:27 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 26, for SpaceX’s seventh crew rotation mission to the microgravity laboratory for NASA. More to come.” “The new launch date provides teams additional time to complete and discuss analysis. The vehicles remain healthy and crew is ready to fly,” SpaceX added via X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday night, without specifying which issue(s) required further analysis. Crew-7 will send four astronauts representing four different space agencies to the ISS for a roughly six-month stay. They’ll get there aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endurance, which already has two trips to the orbiting lab under its belt. The crewmembers are NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, Endurance’s commander; the European Space Agency’s Andreas Mogensen, from Denmark, who will serve as pilot; and Satoshi Furukawa and Konstantin Borisov, of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, respectively. Furukawa and Borisov will be mission specialists on Crew-7.
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