New Delay for 1st Private Spaceship Launch to Space Station

by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor

Date: 23 April 2012 Time: 05:31 PM ET

Dragon’s solar array panels being installed on Dragon’s trunk at the SpaceX hangar in Cape Canaveral, Fla. CREDIT: SpaceX View full size image

The first private spaceship launch to the International Space Station has been delayed, possibly by at least a week, the vehicle's makers announced today (April 23).
The commercial spaceflight company SpaceX was set to launch its Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket April 30 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The unmanned spacecraft will fly a demonstration mission for future cargo deliveries to the space station under an agreement with NASA.
Now, that liftoff will likely not occur until May 3 at the earliest, and most likely around May 7.


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