NASA, SpaceX Adjust Crew-13 Launch Date

NASA Science reports that NASA and SpaceX are pushing back the launch of the Crew‑Thirteen mission to the International Space Station after engineers discovered an oxidizer leak in Dragon’s propulsion system during routine pre‑launch processing. The four‑person crew – Commander Jessica Watkins, Pilot Luke Delaney, Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov – will still join Expedition Seventy‑Five once the spacecraft lifts off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Nine from Cape Canaveral, but additional tests and any needed rework must be completed first. The astronauts will enter quarantine about two weeks prior to flight, and a revised launch date will be announced when the review is finished. This story was published on Sunday.

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