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NASA has postponed the launch of the Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) until Friday, February 13, due to unfavourable weather conditions along the flight path.
While conditions at the Florida launch site are acceptable, high winds forecast along the U.S. East Coast could endanger the crew during a potential emergency splashdown.
The mission, utilising a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, is scheduled to lift off at 5:15 am local time.
The international crew—consisting of Americans Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, French astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev—remains in quarantine at Kennedy Space Centre.
The arrival of Crew-12 is critical for the ISS, which has been operating with a skeleton crew of only three people following the historic medical evacuation of Crew-11 in January.
This transition comes as the ageing laboratory enters its final years of operation; the ISS is slated for decommissioning and a controlled de-orbit into the Pacific Ocean in 2030.
