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.
