March 3 (UPI) — NASA and SpaceX said there is a 75% chance of favorable for Sunday night’s planned liftoff of the Crew-8 mission, sending 3 American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station.
The mission was initially scheduled to lift off Saturday night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but SpaceX posted an update on X Saturday evening that it was standing down due to elevated winds at the launch site and in the flight track of the spacecraft.
NASA’s Crew-8 mission to the space stationis scheduled to fly in SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft Endeavour atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
Once aboard the space station, the crew will perform a variety of operational and scientific tasks.
This will be the fifth mission for the Dragon capsule Endeavour, the most for any SpaceX spacecraft. The vehicle previously carried the company’s first manned space flight, Demo-2, to the space station in 2020.
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