As more and more plans come out for space travel to neighboring planets Mars and Venus, the latest in space news sees the SpaceX resupply mission from NASA launching Falcon 9 rocket plus Dragon cargo ship were scheduled to be launched on January 6, 6:20 a.m EST.
The SpaceX resupply mission from NASA will be sending out necessary critical cargo to the International Space Station (ISS), containing different supplies; however, due to recent issues, the launch has already been delayed several times, most recently this Tuesday.
According to Universe Today, the SpaceX resupply mission from NASA will be rolling out the Falcon 9 rocket with its cargo freighter, as it will be on a mission heading to the International Space Station set to deliver critical supplies to the astronauts in the station; the original scheduled launch was stated to blast off at 6:20 a.m. EST on Tuesday January 6, from the Space Launch Complex 40 in the Florida Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The Dragon spacecraft will be carrying over 5,000 pounds of cargo, including scientific instruments, to the ISS.
However, as the NASA blog reported, the SpaceX resupply mission from NASA was aborted when it had only one minute and 21 seconds left on the countdown clock, due to the fact that a thrust vector control actuator in the Falcon 9's second stage wasn't performing as expected; due to this, the launch was aborted until further notice, though the next available opportunity for launch to the ISS is this Friday, January 9.
According to International Business Times, this launch attempt was the first by the American national space company since the Orbital Sciences rocket explosion on October 28 last year. A good deal of the scientific experiments that are to be sent to the ISS with the SpaceX resupply mission from NASA had been developed by those students who lost their investigations in the fire last year.
