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Mike Wehner
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- SpaceX and NASA have announced that the next crewed mission in Crew Dragon (the first non-test flight of the spacecraft) will be delayed by a week or two.
- The delay comes as SpaceX wishes to investigate some bizarre data regarding a recent Falcon 9 launch.
- The mission is now scheduled to take place by mid-November.
It's been a busy year for both SpaceX and NASA. Despite the ongoing global health crisis, both groups have been making big moves, launching new missions, and continuing their work on various projects. The first crewed flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon went off without a hitch earlier this year, and NASA was eager to begin using the spacecraft for official missions sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, it looks like that'll have to wait, at least for a little while.
In a new update posted by NASA, the October 31st Crew Dragon launch that was to carry four astronauts to the International Space Station has been delayed. The Halloween-day flight was supposed to deliver the foursome to the orbiting laboratory and mark the first time NASA had launched a "real" crewed mission from US soil in nearly a decade.
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NASA’s first real Crew Dragon mission has been delayed originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 17:22:20 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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