His mission was earlier placed on indefinite delay as a consequence of a problem associated to a leak on the #International Space Station.
The astronauts have been initially scheduled for lift-off on May 29.(AFP)
His mission was earlier placed on indefinite delay as a consequence of a problem associated to a leak on the #International Space Station. NASA introduced on Thursday that it was inspecting a leak onboard the ISS’s Russian module.
The astronauts have been initially scheduled for lift-off on May 29, which was delay to June 8, June 10 and June 11, when #SpaceX, the suppliers of the launch rocket and the house capsule, detected a liquid oxygen leak within the Falcon-9 rocket.
Former NASA astronaut and director of human spaceflight at #Axiom Space, #Peggy Whitson, will command the industrial mission, whereas Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will function pilot.
The two mission specialists are #European Space Agency (ESA) mission astronaut Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary.
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