NASA announces postponement of first commercial manned space mission

　　China News Agency, Houston, August 14-NASA announced on the 14th that it will postpone the commercial manned space mission (Crew-1), and plans to launch the mission no earlier than October 23.

　　NASA said in a statement that day that this commercial manned space mission was originally planned to be executed in September 2020. However, since the three astronauts will take the Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station in October, NASA plans to postpone this mission until the end of October in order not to affect the flight schedule of the space station staff rotation period.

Data map: On May 30, local time, the first manned flight trial of NASA's Commercial Crew Aviation Program (CPP) was successfully launched.

　　According to the American technology media The Space, this commercial manned space mission is expected to send three American astronauts and one Japanese astronaut to the space station. They will arrive at the space station on a manned "Dragon" spacecraft developed by SpaceX, and stay there for 6 months, which means they will return to Earth in late April 2021.

　　According to the US Consumer News and Business Channel, NASA completed its first commercial manned test flight (Demo-2) in early August this year. Two American astronauts took SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on May 30th. They stayed on the space station for 64 days and successfully followed the “Dragon” spacecraft on August 2nd. Return to Earth and fall into the Gulf of Mexico near Florida.

　　NASA and SpaceX are checking the data of manned test flight missions to confirm whether the "Dragon" spacecraft and the "Falcon 9" rocket can perform formal manned missions.

　　NASA said that if it can successfully complete the commercial manned space mission (Crew-1), it will mean that NASA can regularly transport astronauts to the space station and end its dependence on Russian manned spacecraft.

　　SpaceX's "Falcon 9" rocket arrived in Florida in July to prepare for the launch of a commercial manned space mission. (Finish)