NASA and SpaceX postponed the launch of the rocket that will take four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, for the second time in a few days, because one of the crew members suffers from a "minor health problem. ".
"It is not a medical emergency and is not related to covid-19,"
NASA said without further details in a statement.
American astronauts
Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn
, as well as German Matthias Maurer, will remain in quarantine at the Kennedy Space Center until then, the agency added.
They were scheduled to take off on Sunday, but due to bad weather it was postponed to Wednesday.
Now the launch
has been rescheduled for Saturday at 11:36 p.m. local
(03:36 GMT Sunday), from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
NASA did not release the name of the sick astronaut.
This mission, dubbed Crew-3, is part of NASA's multi-million dollar partnership with SpaceX, Elon Musk's company.
It was signed after the end of the space shuttle program in 2011 to resume manned space flights from US soil.
The astronauts
will spend about six months in orbit
and will carry out numerous experiments aboard this flying laboratory.
They will replace the four Crew-2 astronauts, who have been on the ISS since April.
Crew-2's return to Earth is scheduled "for early November," but on Monday NASA said it "continues to evaluate dates" and does not rule out an "indirect handover" between the two crews.
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