According to NASA, the decision to cancel the Sunday start date was made, because you need “additional time to continue the assessment of the international space station after recent repair work in the rear segment of the Zawizda service module.” The new start date is to be given “in the coming days”.
“Due to the combined and interdependent space station systems, NASA wants to make sure that the station is ready to accept additional crew members, and the agency devotes the necessary time to review data” – it was written.
The detected air leakage and the pressure drop in the Russian ISS module was the reason for the earlier translation of the Axiom mission last week. Then NASA reported that after repairing the pressure level stabilized, but was subjected to further observations.
The original date of the mission was to be on May 29, but since then the deadline was postponed several times due to the technical problems of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsules and because of the weather.
Who was to take part in the space mission?
The mission to set off from the NASA Kennedy Space Center center in Florida is the fourth commercial flight at Axiom Space ISS. Astronauts-former Astronaut NASA Peggy Whitson (commander), pilot Shubhanshu Shukla from India and specialists scientists Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski and Tibor of Kapu from Hungary-will spend up to 14 days to ISS, performing about 60 scientific experiments, including 13 prepared by Polish scientists. The station will fly on board the Crew Dragon capsule – the last created by SpaceX – for which it will be the first flight into space.
Uznański-Wiśniewski will be the first Polish astronaut at an international space station.
