Four NASA astronauts were scheduled to leave for the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew-6 mission this morning, but engineers detected a rocket malfunction.
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February 27, 2023
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft sitting on the launch pad this morning Joe Raedle/Getty Images
A rocket launch at 1:45 AM (EST) this morning, scheduled to carry four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), was canceled two minutes before launch due to safety reasons.
The SpaceX Crew-6 launch attempt, in collaboration with NASA, was to carry four astronauts to the ISS in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule aboard a 70-meter-tall Falcon 9 rocket. The cancellation was made after a problem was discovered with one of the rockets…
