The target launch date for SpaceX's Crew-1 mission, its first fully operational crewed mission to space, has been pushed back from late September to October 23 announced by NASA on 14th Aug.
The crew for SpaceX's Crew-1 mission. From left to right are NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, mission specialist; Victor Oliver, pilot; and Mike Hopkins, Crew Dragon commander; and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, mission specialist. (Image credit: SpaceX)
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The mission, which is set to launch SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, won't lift off until at least late October "to accommodate spacecraft traffic for the upcoming Soyuz crew rotation and best meet the needs of the International Space Station," NASA wrote in the statement.
Astronaut Crew
Crew-1 will carry four astronauts to and from the space station — NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut mission specialist Soichi Noguchi.
Crew-1 will follow the success of SpaceX's historic Demo-2 mission, which wrapped up earlier this month. Demo-2, the first orbital crewed flight test of a commercially owned and operated human spacecraft, carried NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to and from the space station aboard a Crew Dragon capsule.
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Crew-1 won't be cleared for flight, however, until NASA and SpaceX finish examining Demo-2 data and officially certify Crew Dragon and the Falcon 9 for operational crewed missions.
Spaceflight milestones like the success of Demo-1 and crew-1 will allow regular flying of astronauts to space was told by the agency today.
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