The space agency NASA announced the postponement of the launch of the Crew-5 mission. The launch was originally scheduled for early September, but the agency now says the launch of the Crew-5 mission will take place no earlier than September 29. The spacecraft is supposed to deliver NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Kassada, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina to the ISS.
The postponement of the launch to a later date is due to the need to replace the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which was supposed to send the Crew Dragon capsule into space. During transport from the SpaceX plant in Hawthorne, California to the test site in McGregor, Texas, the rocket was damaged and is now unable to be used for launch. As a result, SpaceX had to remove the intermediate stage of the rocket (the section between the booster and the upper stage) and some instruments.
SpaceX carried out checks and tests on the launch vehicle to make sure the damage was limited to the intermediate stage, and NASA said it verified the work. The launch vehicle will now undergo regular milestone testing at McGregor before being certified for flight.
Given the postponement of the launch of Crew-5, now the Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will be the first to launch in the cross-flight program. As part of this mission, cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, as well as NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, will arrive at the ISS.
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NASA agreed with Roskosmos on “cross flights” to the ISS
Source: spacenews
