Due to bad weather conditions, NASA is postponing the flight to the International Space Station ISS with the German astronaut Matthias Maurer.

The mission is now planned for Wednesday (November 3rd), Nasa announced on Saturday.

It was actually planned that a German astronaut would fly into space with Matthias Maurer for the first time in three years on Sunday.

Together with his NASA colleagues Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari and Kayla Barron, the 51-year-old from Saarland is to start from the Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida for the International Space Station ISS.