Today, Monday, SpaceX announced the new launch date for the Crew 6 mission, which includes Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, to the International Space Station, after the attempt was canceled due to technical problems at the last minute. And SpaceX stated that the launch date for the Crew 6 mission will be on the second of next March.
The mission was scheduled to launch aboard the SpaceX "Dragon" vehicle, from Cape Canaveral space base, in Florida, in the United States, to the International Space Station, before a last-minute technical problem forced SpaceX, which Founded by billionaire Elon Musk, it canceled an attempt to launch four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.
The countdown has come to a halt with just two minutes left until takeoff from the Kennedy Space Center. With only a split second left to go, there was no time to deal with what was wrong with the engine's ignition system.
Two of the four NASA astronauts were strapped into the capsule atop the Falcon rocket. When SpaceX announced that fuel would begin to come out of the rocket, team leader Stephen Bowen replied, "We'll just sit here waiting." It was expected to take about an hour.
The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center was scheduled to transmit the live broadcast of what was considered the longest Arab mission to space. The crew6 mission is the first long-term mission for any Arab astronaut, and the second Emirati mission to the International Space Station, and was launched by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center as part of the Emirates Astronaut Programme.
A few days ago, a team from the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center and the US Space Agency "NASA" had received Al Neyadi and his fellow crew members of the Crew-6 mission, two American astronauts and a third from Russia, upon their arrival at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
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