Running a day late, the four person crew plans to dock at the International Space Station early Sunday.
SpaceX geared up Friday for a second attempt to launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft early Saturday on a flight to carry a crew of three-men and one-woman to the International Space Station to replace four other fliers wrapping up a six-month stay.
The Crew-7 Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon astronaut ferry ship awaiting launch atop pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center.Crew-7 commander Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japanese astronaut-surgeon Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov are the first fully international crew to fly aboard a SpaceX ferry ship.
NASA and SpaceX had planned to launch the Crew-7 mission early Friday, but the flight was scrubbed late Thursday when mission managers decided"open paperwork" concerning components in the Crew Dragon's life support system -- components that worked normally during pre-flight tests -- had not been fully closed out.
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