NASA said a capsule carrying four astronauts home will leave the International Space Station on Monday instead of Sunday, and blamed the delay on strong winds at the landing site.
The team including Thomas Pesquet of France, Akihiko Hoshide of Japan and American astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will disembark at 19:05 on Monday.
“Due to the strong wind near the splash zone, the current goal of the Crew-2 mission is no earlier than,” NASA posted on Twitter at 03:33 on Tuesday.
Their Crew Dragon capsule, called Endeavour, was built by the private company SpaceX and is expected to arrive on the Florida coast.
Since April 24, in the orbit of the space station, Crew-2 astronauts will still return to solid ground before the next four-person mission reaches the International Space Station.
Crew-3 was also delayed several times, including bad weather.
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