NASA Scrubs Launch of New Space Station Crew: What to Know

Maybe Thursday instead? A crew of four were set to head to the International Space Station on Wednesday, but NASA and SpaceX scrubbed the planned launch attempt of the agency's Crew-10 mission due to a hydraulic system issue with a ground support clamp arm for the Falcon 9 rocket, the space agency reported. SpaceX had been planning to launch the Crew-10 mission on a Dragon spacecraft with an assist from a Falcon 9 rocket. This is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program that relies on SpaceX to ferry astronauts to and from the ISS. What happened to the SpaceX Crew-10 launch? NASA had been targeting liftoff for 7:48 p.m. ET Wednesday from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch complex has a storied history dating back to the Apollo moon program era of the 1960s. But the hydraulic system issue means that NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov had to ... Read full article.