NASA Media Teleconference Today on Changes to ISS Launch Schedule

NASA Media Teleconference Today on Changes to ISS Launch Schedule

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2:00 pm Central Time (3:00 pm ET) this afternoon to discuss changes to the International Space Station (ISS) schedule.

NASA says the teleconference at Johnson Space Center will discuss “progress toward an updated schedule.”   The next crew launch to the ISS has been delayed because the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that was to take the crew into space was damaged during testing and is unusable.  Russia will provide a replacement spacecraft, but the launch will be delayed from March 30 until the end of April or middle of May.

Meanwhile, the next test launch of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and its Falcon 9 launch vehicle already had been delayed because more work was needed.  That test is intended to demostrate Dragon’s ability to berth with the ISS as part of SpaceX’s effort to provide earth-to-ISS cargo services for NASA.

The teleconference will be streamed live at http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio.

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