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NASA Delays Milestone SpaceX Flight Until Sunday on Weather
- Debut regular crew mission to the ISS pushed back by a day
- Four astronauts will join the orbiting lab’s three-person crew
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NASA and SpaceX delayed the launch of their first regular commercial crew flight by a day because of weather conditions that could threaten recovery operations at sea if the Dragon capsule has to abort the flight during ascent.
SpaceX will send four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday evening instead of Saturday “due to onshore winds and recovery operations,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tweeted Friday after a readiness review.