KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.—The astronauts stranded on the International Space Station for more than nine months due to a botched Boeing test flight will have to wait a little longer to come home. NASA’s launch meant to pick the crew up was scrubbed on March 12 with a little more than 43 minutes left in the countdown.
SpaceX’s tenth manned crew to the orbiting laboratory as part of NASA’s commercial crew program remained on Launch Pad 39-A due to hydraulic issues with one of the clamps holding the Falcon 9 rocket in place. Everything else about the mission, including the launch vehicle, orbiting spacecraft, and crew were good to go.
