He has to be patient for a few more days …
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer (51) was supposed to fly to the International Space Station ISS on Sunday morning at 7.21 a.m. our time. But now is the start of the mission because of bad weather conditions postponed.
New scheduled date: Wednesday, November 3 at 7:10 a.m. German time (1:10 a.m. Eastern Time).
The reason is “a large storm system that causes winds and waves in the Atlantic Ocean along the flight route,” said NASA.
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Matthias Maurer flies to the ISS with three other astronauts: The Americans Kayla Barron (33), Thomas H. Marshburn (60) and Raja Chari (43) will be on board. The flight to the ISS takes around 22 hours.
Then the Dragon space capsule will dock the space station fully automatically. The astronauts will live and work up there for six months.
Maurer will be the first German to fly a Space X rocket from the US space station Cape Canaveral. He worked twelve years towards the day.