{"id":50755,"date":"2025-07-31T19:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50755\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:36:08","slug":"clouds-force-last-minute-delay-for-astronaut-launch-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50755\/","title":{"rendered":"Clouds force last-minute delay for astronaut launch to International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; Thick clouds prompted SpaceX to call off Thursday\u2019s <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-boeing-starliner-stuck-astronauts-6c2db96fa6c6859a48a8c26438fab1d5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planned launch<\/a> of four astronauts to the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-space-station-spacex-retire-plunge-3076b8f67488a699240b23bc7f27fc8d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Space Station<\/a> for NASA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The countdown was halted at the one-minute, 7-second mark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">SpaceX&#8217;s next launch attempt from Kennedy Space Center is Friday, although the weather forecast is less favorable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The U.S., Japanese and Russian crew will spend at least six months at the space station, replacing colleagues launched in March as the fill-ins for <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-stuck-astronauts-spacex-boeing-419f98f239a25cfb54f970b8522dc1d2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s two stuck astronauts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who\u2019s temporarily leading NASA, was at Kennedy Space Center for the launch attempt. The morning started out with ideal weather, but the wind picked up and the clouds rolled in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; Thick clouds prompted SpaceX to call off Thursday\u2019s planned launch of four astronauts to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[39136,9178,966,28,79,193,9175,9179,9176,74],"class_list":["post-50755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-39136","tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","tag-article","tag-business","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-exploration","tag-space-launches","tag-spacecraft","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}