The second manned flight on SpaceX's Crew Dragon has been postponed from April 22 to April 23 due to unfavorable weather conditions, according to the NASA website. The US space agency estimates the likelihood of favorable weather conditions a day later at 90%.
The launch is planned from the Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida. The start is scheduled for 5:49 local time (12:49 Moscow time). Note that NASA will send astronauts to the ISS for the first time using a reusable spacecraft and a reusable first stage of a launch vehicle at the same time.
Crew Dragon's first manned flight to the ISS took place in May. Astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken were brought to the station. This time aboard will be NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan MacArthur, ESA astronaut Tom Peske and Japan Aerospace Research Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
Recall that until 2020, only Russian Soyuz spacecraft could fly to the ISS for nine years. However, on May 30 of that year, SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle was launched. The rocket with the first ever privately manned spacecraft Crew Dragon was launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and then successfully docked with the ISS.
Details – in the publication of “Kommersant” “Elon Musk launches a chain reaction in space.”
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