NASA Scrubs SpaceX Launch of Astronauts Bound for International Space Station
NASA scrubbed the launch of its SpaceX Crew-6 mission, scheduled to take off from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in the early hours of Monday, February 27, the agency said.
Footage from the launchpad in Titusville shows the moment the launch was cancelled due to ground tech issues.
According to NASA’s timestamp, the decision was taken around 2 mins 30 secs before the planned launch time at 1:45 am local time.
The SpaceX Crew-6 mission was to carry a crew of four from NASA, the United Arab Emirates, and Roscosmos, according to NASA.
According to SpaceX, the next launch window is Tuesday, February 28, at 1:22 am ET. Credit: NASA via Storyful
Video transcript
- Minus 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
- This is the LD on countdown one. Hold. Hold. Hold.
We're sending down to do a TEA-TAB ground issue.
- As you just heard, we have--
- [INAUDIBLE] has started.
- As you just heard, we have a hold tonight due to the TEA-TAB issue that I mentioned prior. And the--
- Dragon SpaceX with [INAUDIBLE] from LD. You are go to step into five decimal 100 launch scrub.
- [INAUDIBLE] decimal 100 launch scrub.
- Minus 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
- This is the LD on countdown one. Hold. Hold. Hold. We're sending down to do a TEA-TAB ground issue.
- As you just heard, we have--
- [INAUDIBLE] has started.
- As you just heard, we have a hold tonight due to the TEA-TAB issue that I mentioned prior. And the--
- Dragon SpaceX with [INAUDIBLE] from LD. You are go to step into five decimal 100 launch scrub
- [INAUDIBLE] decimal 100 launch scrub.
