{"id":159963,"date":"2023-03-09T23:22:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T05:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/spacex-crew-5-astronauts-hope-to-leave-space-station-march-9-as-nasa-watches-weather"},"modified":"2023-03-09T23:22:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T05:22:42","slug":"spacex-crew-5-astronauts-hope-to-leave-space-station-march-9-as-nasa-watches-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/spacex-crew-5-astronauts-hope-to-leave-space-station-march-9-as-nasa-watches-weather","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Crew-5 astronauts hope to leave space station March 9 as NASA watches weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-crew-5-astronauts-hope-to-leave-space-station-march-9-as-nasa-watches-weather2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA and SpaceX continue to evaluate the weather for the return of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-5 mission from the International Space Station,\u201d NASA wrote. \u201cTeams conducted a weather briefing overnight and decided to waive off the initial undocking opportunity for early Thursday, March 9, due to high winds at the splashdown sites. Teams are currently targeting undocking for no earlier than Thursday evening, pending weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest in a series of interesting events for Crew-5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe universe started throwing curveballs our way, and then it got really crazy,\u201d NASA astronaut Josh Cassada said during a livestreamed in-orbit farewell today (March 8) reflecting on Crew-5\u2019s six-month mission. During their time aboard the orbital lab, two spacecraft docked at the ISS experienced coolant leaks (a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/soyuz-spacecraft-leak-space-station-cancels-spacewalk\">Soyuz crew capsule<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/russia-progress-82-cargo-spacecraft-leak\">Progress cargo vessel<\/a>, both Russian) and the orbiting complex had to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/international-space-station-dodges-russian-space-debris\">dodge space debris<\/a> a few times. Nevertheless, all has been righted in time for Crew-5\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNASA and SpaceX continue to evaluate the weather for the return of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-5 mission from the International Space Station,\u201d NASA wrote. \u201cTeams conducted a weather briefing overnight and decided to waive off the initial undocking opportunity for early Thursday, March 9, due to high winds at the splashdown sites. Teams are currently targeting [\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-159963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159963","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=159963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}