Space.com by Chelsea Gohd 8/14/2020
SpaceX's next astronaut mission faces another launch delay.
The target launch date for SpaceX's Crew-1 mission, its first fully operational crewed mission to space, has been pushed back from "no earlier than late September," to "no earlier than Oct. 23, NASA announced in a statement today (Aug. 14).
The mission, which is set to launch SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, won't lift off until at least late October "to accommodate spacecraft traffic for the upcoming Soyuz crew rotation and best meet the needs of the International Space Station," NASA wrote in the statement.
Crew-1 will carry four astronauts to and from the space station — NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut mission specialist Soichi Noguchi.
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