FILE - From beforehand left, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide permission the Operation and Checkout Building astatine the Kennedy Space Center successful Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, April 23, 2021. High upwind disconnected the Florida seashore has prompted SpaceX to hold the instrumentality of 4 abstraction presumption astronauts. They were expected to permission the International Space Station connected Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021 with their capsule splashing down successful the Gulf of Mexico connected Monday morning. (AP Photo/John Raoux, file) (John Raoux,Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – High upwind disconnected the Florida seashore has prompted SpaceX to hold the instrumentality of 4 abstraction presumption astronauts successful orbit since spring.

The U.S., French and Japanese astronauts were expected to permission the International Space Station connected Sunday, with their capsule splashing down successful the Gulf of Mexico connected Monday morning. But with gusts exceeding information limits, SpaceX bumped the departure to Monday afternoon, with a nighttime instrumentality to reason their six-month mission.

The bully quality is that their travel location volition present past 8 hours, little than fractional arsenic agelong arsenic before. The toilet successful their capsule is broken, and truthful the 4 volition request to trust connected diapers portion flying home.

SpaceX inactive is aiming for a Wednesday nighttime launch, astatine the earliest, of their replacements. This formation besides has been delayed by atrocious weather, arsenic good arsenic an astronaut's undisclosed aesculapian issue. The issue, described arsenic minor, should beryllium resolved by motorboat time, officials said.

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Last week, SpaceX and NASA flipped the bid of the motorboat and landing due to the fact that of the deteriorating upwind and the looming deadline to get the capsule backmost from the abstraction station. SpaceX capsules are certified for a maximum 210 days successful orbit, and the 1 up determination present is approaching 200 days.

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