NASA and SpaceX early on Monday postponed the launch of two U.S. astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates crewmate minutes earlier than they had been because of elevate off from Florida on a flight to the Worldwide Area Station.

The U.S. house company and SpaceX, the non-public rocket firm based by billionaire Elon Musk, cited a technical glitch regarding the stream of ignition fluid used to assist begin the spacecraft’s engines.

The countdown had appeared to be progressing easily till about two and a half minutes earlier than blastoff, when NASA introduced on its dwell webcast that the launch of the 4 crew members on a six-month science mission could be postponed.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with a Crew Dragon capsule had been scheduled for liftoff at 1:45 a.m. EST (0645 GMT) from NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The primary backup launch alternative for the mission was set for early Tuesday, about 24 hours from the preliminary try and get the rocket off the bottom.

Neither NASA nor SpaceX instantly mentioned how lengthy it would truly take earlier than they might be able to attempt once more. Eleventh-hour launch scrubs are pretty routine within the extremely complicated and dangerous endeavor of human spaceflight.

Had Monday’s launch been a hit, it was anticipated to take the crew about 25 hours to achieve their vacation spot on the Worldwide Area Station (ISS), a laboratory orbiting about 250 miles (420 km) above Earth.

Designated Crew 6, the mission will carry the sixth long-duration ISS workforce that NASA has flown aboard SpaceX for the reason that Musk’s California-based firm started sending American astronauts to orbit in Could 2020.