{"id":108085,"date":"2025-07-31T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108085\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:24:10","slug":"spacex-calls-off-astronaut-launch-after-clouds-rolled-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108085\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX calls off astronaut launch after clouds rolled in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Thick clouds prompted SpaceX to call off Thursday\u2019s <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-boeing-starliner-stuck-astronauts-6c2db96fa6c6859a48a8c26438fab1d5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planned launch<\/a> of four astronauts to the <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-space-station-spacex-retire-plunge-3076b8f67488a699240b23bc7f27fc8d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Space Station<\/a> for NASA.<\/p>\n<p>The countdown was halted at the one-minute, 7-second mark.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s next launch attempt from Kennedy Space Center is Friday, although the weather forecast is less favorable.<\/p>\n<p>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=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-stuck-astronauts-spacex-boeing-419f98f239a25cfb54f970b8522dc1d2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA\u2019s two stuck astronauts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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>___<\/p>\n<p>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. (AP) \u2014 Thick clouds prompted SpaceX to call off Thursday\u2019s planned launch of four astronauts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":108086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[166,64,6756,165,159,167,16523,164,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-108085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-kennedy-space-center","11":"tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space-exploration","14":"tag-space-launches","15":"tag-spacecraft","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114949014708922062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}