{"id":114313,"date":"2020-10-13T07:27:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacexs-next-astronaut-mission-for-nasa-has-been-pushed-to-november-following-an-issue-with-its-rocket-engines"},"modified":"2020-10-13T07:27:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:27:45","slug":"spacexs-next-astronaut-mission-for-nasa-has-been-pushed-to-november-following-an-issue-with-its-rocket-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacexs-next-astronaut-mission-for-nasa-has-been-pushed-to-november-following-an-issue-with-its-rocket-engines","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s next astronaut mission for NASA has been pushed to November following an issue with its rocket engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacexs-next-astronaut-mission-for-nasa-has-been-pushed-to-november-following-an-issue-with-its-rocket-engines.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mission was previously scheduled for 2:40 a.m. ET on October 31. The latest delay allows SpaceX to evaluate an issue with its Falcon 9 rocket engines during a recent test launch. The rocket\u2019s gas generators demonstrated abnormal behavior, NASA said in a statement, though it didn\u2019t specify what went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-space-x-inspection-2-scrubs-2020-10\">aborted a scheduled launch<\/a> of its Falcon 9 rocket on October 2 after a gas generator saw an unexpected rise in pressure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-spacex-crew-1-mission-launch-late-october-2020-8\">This isn\u2019t the first time<\/a> SpaceX has delayed Crew-1, the company\u2019s first official, contracted astronaut mission for NASA. The mission was originally slated to launch as early as September. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-spacex-crew-1-mission-launch-late-october-2020-8\">pushed back until Halloween<\/a> to better coordinate with the schedules of other cosmonauts and astronauts going to and from the ISS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission was previously scheduled for 2:40 a.m. ET on October 31. The latest delay allows SpaceX to evaluate an issue with its Falcon 9 rocket engines during a recent test launch. The rocket\u2019s gas generators demonstrated abnormal behavior, NASA said in a statement, though it didn\u2019t specify what went wrong. SpaceX aborted a scheduled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}