A technical problem in the launch field at the last minute pushed the Spacex of the Hilo Musk Delay and eventually postpone a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday to replace the two NASA astronauts who remain trapped in space for more than nine months.

Due to the new postponement of the launch, the two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams will have to wait for at least two more days before they can begin their return trip to Earth. The two astronauts arrived at the ISS last June for a mission that was supposed to last for a maximum of 10 days, but the couple was forced to extend their stay after their Boeing Starliner spaceships had problems.

Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams

The couple is scheduled to return to Earth with a SpaceX Dragon spaceship currently located in the ISS as soon as a group of Americans, Japanese and Russian astronauts arrives to replace them.

NASA

The 4 astronauts who were ready to depart for space

NASA said in a statement that Wednesday’s launch at Kennedy Space Center was canceled due to a problem with the plumber in less than four hours before the scheduled evening take -off of the Falcon rocket from the Kennedy Space Center. rocket in its support structure. Then it was found that there was a problem. After a long wait for the four astronauts who will take the place of Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams, the launch was eventually canceled.

The space agency said it is working to tackle the problem of the hydraulic system and plans to repeat the launch on Friday.

The Crew-10 team is made up of the astronauts of Nasa Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese Takuya Onishi and Russian Kirill Peskov.

If the mission takes place on Friday, Willmore and Williams could depart from the ISS until March 19, according to NASA.