BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — There’s a delay for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station.
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the is being pushed back to Aug. 17 to give crews more time to get the launchpad ready after Wednesday’s scheduled Falcon Heavy launch.
All the hardware for the Crew-7 mission is at the Kennedy Space Center. The first flight readiness review is scheduled for later this week.
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Crew-7 includes a Russian cosmonaut, a Japanese astronaut, a European astronaut and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli.
For the Crew-7 launch, SpaceX will be using its brand-new Hangar X for launch control operations.
Earlier Tuesday, there was a power problem at Mission Control Center Houston that caused NASA to lose communication with the ISS astronauts.
The agency used Russian assets to relay the problem to crew before getting its own backup system online. There was never any danger to the ISS astronauts.
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