Matthias Maurer’s flight to the International Space Station ISS has been postponed to Wednesday. The reason is a storm over the Atlantic, as NASA announced.
The first flight of the German Astronauts Matthias Maurer on the International Space Station ISS does not take place on Sunday as planned. The US space agency NASA postponed the date to Wednesday, November 3rd due to a storm.
Maurer and his three colleagues were originally supposed to take off from the Cape Canaveral spaceport and fly to the ISS on Sunday in a “Crew Dragon” owned by Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX.
Maurer would be the twelfth German in space, the fourth on the ISS and the first to fly there in a “Crew Dragon”. On the space station, Maurer will carry out numerous experiments for about six months at an altitude of around 400 kilometers and will probably also complete an outdoor mission.