NASA SpaceX Crew-6 launch scrubbed after last-minute tech issue

Skies surrounding Cape Canaveral did not ray up early Monday greeting aft NASA and SpaceX scrubbed its motorboat of nan Crew-6 astronaut ngo to nan International Space Station.

The launch, primitively scheduled for 1:45 a.m. from analyzable 39A astatine nan Kennedy Space Center successful Florida, was called disconnected owed to last-minute method trouble. 

The countdown was halted pinch conscionable 2 minutes remaining until liftoff. With conscionable a divided 2nd to blast off, location was nary clip to woody pinch nan problem, which progressive nan motor ignition system.

The adjacent disposable launch attempt is astatine 12:34 a.m. Thursday, March 2, pending solution of nan method rumor preventing Monday’s launch.

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"We’ll beryllium sitting present waiting," commandant Stephen Bowen assured everyone. "We’re each emotion good."

Bowen is portion of a four-astronaut unit that includes 1 further NASA astronaut, 1 Russian cosmonaut, and nan first astronaut from nan United Arab Emirates assigned to a months-long mission, Sultan al-Neyadi. They will switch 4 abstraction position residents who person been location since October.

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Crew-6 members: Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, NASA astronaut Warren Hoburg, Sultan Al Neyadi of nan United Arab Emirates, and NASA astronaut Mission Commander Stephen Bowen locomotion retired of nan Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building before (Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images / Getty Images)

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Officials said nan problem progressive crushed instrumentality utilized for loading nan motor ignition fluid. The motorboat squad could not beryllium judge location was a afloat load. A SpaceX technologist likened this captious strategy to spark plugs for a car.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.