Due to bad weather, SpaceX's Human Space Mission stalled 16 minutes before launch
Washington, Ta. Thursday 28 May 2020
After 9 years, America was on the verge of making history but due to bad weather, the human space mission had to be stopped today. The US space agency NASA was preparing to send astronauts to the International Space Station by the private company SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.
At 2.03am on the late night of May 27, 2020, NASA was to send two US astronauts from the Falcon rocket to the ISS but stopped the mission 16.54 minutes ago. NASA said the launch was not taking place due to bad weather. Now the mission will take place three days later.
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft was mounted on a Falcon rocket. Inside are the names of the American astronauts sitting inside. Robert Banken and Douglas Hurley. Both astronauts have traveled to the International Space Station before.
Spacecraft belongs to businessman Alan Musk's company
The two astronauts were sent to the International Space Station from the US company Space-X's spacecraft Dragon. Space-X is the company of American businessman Alan Musk. This is working with NASA on several space missions for the future.
The spacecraft Dragon has placed the spacecraft on top of America's most reliable rocket Falcon-9. After which the Falcon-9 rocket was launched from Launch Complex 39A. This mission is named Demo-2. The Demo-1 mission successfully delivered luggage and research-related items from the Dragon spacecraft to the space station.
What will be the benefit to NASA?
Nine years later, the US space agency NASA has resumed its commercial crew program. After the success of this mission, America will not have to resort to Russia and European countries to send its astronauts into space. That means Russia and European countries will not have to send their own astronauts to the space station with rockets at a cost of billions of rupees.
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