Private crew return to Earth delayed due to bad weather
Tourists will spend six more days on the ISS / Photo: Collage: Today
The world’s first fully private crew on the International Space Station must wait at least one more day to leave the orbiting laboratory. after a failed attempt to return to Earth on Saturday, April 23.
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NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space, which supports the private Ax-1 mission, have canceled plans to undock the SpaceX Dragon with a crew of four due to unacceptably strong winds at a splashdown site off the coast of Floridawrites space.com.
Docking is now scheduled for 03:55 on April 25and splashdown should take place on Monday at 20:00 Kyiv time.
A team of “civil cosmonauts” departed for the ISS on April 8 and was scheduled to return to Earth on April 19. However, their return was postponed yet again. In total, they will spend six more days in orbit..
The crew included:
- Larry Connor, American entrepreneur
- Eitan Stibbe, Israeli businessman
- Mark Paty, Canadian investor
- Michael Lopez-Allegria, former NASA astronaut, vice president of Axiom
Note that NASA assures that, despite force majeure, all members of the ISS crew have enough food supplies. Recall that together with space tourists there are now 11 people on the ISS.
By the way, Elon Musk sent a secret US spy satellite into space. The broadcast of the launch was interrupted so as not to give out secret data about the future operation of the satellite.
Source: Segodnya
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