Expedition 63 Crew Waits for Weekend Arrival of New SpaceX Crew After Launch Attempt Was Scrubbed
By NASA information center // May 28, 2020
NASA launch for Saturday at 3:22 p.m. EDT, backup launch date Sunday 3 p.m.
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Expedition 63 crew has had to wait a few more days to gain two new crewmembers after weather scrubbed the initial launch attempt of the SpaceX Crew Dragon.
Meanwhile, the orbiting trio aboard the International Space Station continued focusing on lab operations.
Rain and lightning around Kennedy Space Center kept Commercial Crew members Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on the ground Wednesday.
The Florida weather violated launch rules and SpaceX scrubbed the liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket with the two NASA astronauts atop sitting inside the Crew Dragon vehicle.
NASA has rescheduled the Crew Dragon launch for Saturday at 3:22 p.m. EDT with a backup launch date on Sunday at 3 p.m.
If Hurley and Behnken launch Saturday, they would dock Sunday at 10:29 a.m. to the Harmony module’s International Docking Adapter.
Back on orbit, NASA Commander Chris Cassidy was setting up Japanese network communications gear and science hardware during the morning.
Afterward, the veteran astronaut spent the rest of Thursday exploring how planetary bodies might affect the density and dynamics of different materials.
The Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner started the day transferring cargo to and from the Soyuz crew ship and the two Progress space freighters.
The duo then turned its attention to videotaping and photographing their station activities for an Earth audience.
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