February 28, 2023: -On Monday, NASA and SpaceX are delaying the launch of a capsule containing dual U.S. astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a UAE crewmate, minutes before scheduled liftoff from Florida on a plane to the International Space Station.

The space agency and SpaceX of the U.S., the private rocket firm founded by billionaire Elon Musk, cited a technical glitch relating to the ignition fluid used to begin the spacecraft’s engines.

The decrease had been progressing smoothly until about dual and 30 seconds before blastoff when NASA stated on its live webcast that the launch of the four crew people on a six-month science mission would be delayed.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which increased with a Crew Dragon capsule, planned for liftoff at 1:45 a.m. EST from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The initial backup launch opportunity for the mission is set for early Tuesday, 24 hours from the initial attempt to attain the rocket off the bottom.

Neither NASA nor SpaceX stated how long it might take before they would be ready to try again. Eleventh-hour launch scrubs are routine in the highly complex and risky human spaceflight endeavour.

Had Monday’s launch been a success, it anticipated taking the crew about 25 hours to help their destination at the International Space place, a laboratory orbiting regarding 250 miles (420 km) above Earth.

Designated Crew 6, the mission carried the sixth long-duration ISS team that NASA is flowing aboard SpaceX since Musk’s California-based company started sending American astronauts to orbit in May 2020.

The recent ISS crew led by mission commander known as Stephen Bowen, 59, a one-time U.S. Navy submarine officer logging in over 40 days as a veteran of three space shuttle planes and seven spacewalks.

A person in NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, aged 37, an engineer and commercial aviator designated as the Crew 6 pilot, making his first spaceflight.

In July, Fedyaev was the recent cosmonaut to fly aboard an American spacecraft as a ride-sharing deal signed by NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, despite heightened tensions amid Washington and Moscow over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Crew 6 team will gather seven current ISS occupants aboard the space station, three U.S. NASA crew members, including commander Nicole Aunapu Mann, the initial Native American woman to fly to space, and three Russians and a Japanese astronaut.

The ISS, the length of a football field and a significant human-made object in space, has been operated by a U.S.-Russian-led consortium including Canada, Japan and 11 European countries.