NASA, SpaceX delay flight that was to retrieve stuck astronauts

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NASA, SpaceX delay flight that was to retrieve stuck astronauts  NASA and SpaceX on Wednesday, March 12, delayed the launch of a replacement crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station that would have set in motion the long-awaited homecoming of US astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.  NASA had been set to launch a SpaceX rocket from Florida carrying a replacement crew for the International Space Station in a mission that would set up the return to Earth of Wilmore and Williams — stuck in space for nine months after a trip on Boeing's faulty Starliner.  The launch was called off due to a hydraulic system issue with a ground support clamp arm for the Falcon 9 rocket, NASA said in a statement. NASA said it is now targeting a launch no earlier than 7:03 p.m. EDT (2303 GMT) Friday, March 14,  after mission managers put off a launch attempt on Thursday, March 13, because of high winds and rain forecast in the flight path of Dragon.   NASA/REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #WorldNews #NASA #Space

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00:00Again if you're just now joining us we did have a scrub for the crew 10 launch

00:05today. Once again the vehicle and the crew are safe and healthy. The scrub was

00:12called for a groundside issue with the hydraulic system and as we were working

00:19through each one of those checks we did notice that there was an issue with the

00:24hydraulic system on the clamp arm. Unfortunately around I believe T minus

00:3045 minutes is when they made the official call and that we can we can

00:35make a call in time to prevent going through unnecessary. Those clamp arms are

00:42on the transporter erector that the Falcon 9 is on top of and they are

00:47located around the crew. Whatever that issue that root cause of that issue is

00:52to make sure that when we do go for launch those clamp arms will fully open

00:56and we'll clear the way for that. Related to the clamp arm which is holding there

01:02are two clamp arms holding the Falcon 9 right. And Dragon SpaceX hatches open so

01:11we'll be handing you off to the closeout team for egress. Sorry we couldn't get you

01:14off today we'll speak to you soon and look forward to trying it again. They're

01:19very familiar with each other and as Anna you were mentioning there's a lot

01:24of teams involved with a launch like this. Several teams helping to make a crew

01:31launch like this happen. The closeout team working with the crew side-by-side

01:36obviously the crew itself. When every every single one of those teams is

01:44ready to go. Yeah but we also have the SpaceX mission control here in Hawthorne

01:49as well as NASA's mission control team. And we now have one of the crew members

01:54of Crew 10 out of the Dragon Endurance spacecraft. Another following right

02:03behind and it looks like those are the two mission specialists for Crew 10. So

02:08JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. They

02:13are now safely out of the Dragon spacecraft followed there by NASA

02:19astronaut Nicole Ayers. And then last but not least making her way out of the

02:26Dragon spacecraft is NASA astronauts Anne McClain. It looks like they're now

02:34making their way down the crew access arm well away from the spacecraft that

02:40they just

02:57The closeout team made their way back. They then went up to the crew access arm

03:05and began safing the hatch to then egress the crew the Crew 10 crew. With

03:12the launch pad 39 39 a Falcon 9 hold down clamp arm system. The system that

03:19holds the rocket to the pad. It was a quintessential Florida launch. It's so

03:31natural. Those sea oats waving in the breeze between the beach and the beach

03:36house. You know I actually use those images that they had when they were out

03:39there earlier this week and and get into a relaxing kind of state of state of

03:43mind. That's the one thing about the ocean right. There's always just

03:46something so relaxing about

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