Mashable: The next opportunity for Sultan AlNeyadi to lift off is set for March 2, 2023

The launch of Crew-6 Dragon Endeavour carrying Emirati astronaut, Sultan Al Neyadi was delayed.

SpaceX’s Crew-6 astronaut mission was scrubbed minutes before its launch today.

UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi and his crew members were ready to launch on SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour which was sitting atop its Falcon 9 rocket on the pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.

The planned launch attempt for the six-month-long ISS mission on Monday, 27 February 2023, was scrubbed due to an ignition-fluid issue.

Crew-6 space mission was supposed to see the Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, and the Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev launch for ISS, Monday morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

“Standing down from tonight’s launch of Crew-6 due to a TEA-TEB ground system issue,” SpaceX wrote on its official Twitter account and announced the delay.

Confirming that both Crew-6 and the vehicles are healthy and propellant, the tweet read, “offload has begun ahead of the crew disembarking Dragon.”

Standing down from tonight's launch of Crew-6 due to a TEA-TEB ground system issue. Both Crew-6 and the vehicles are healthy and propellant offload has begun ahead of the crew disembarking Dragon

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 27, 2023
Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi’s next opportunity to lift off was set for Tuesday, February 28, 2023, but it was also delayed due to unfavorable weather conditions.

NASA Comercial Crew confirmed the new lauch date on their official Twitter account, “ NASA and SpaceX scrubbed today’s launch of the Crew 6 mission to the ISS due to a ground systems issue.”

The tweet also confirmed that due to unfavorable weather on Feb.28 will make “the next launch attempt 12:34am ET March 2,” with the pending resolution of the technical issue.

.@NASA and @SpaceX scrubbed today's launch of the #Crew6 mission to the @Space_Station due to a ground systems issue.

Unfavorable weather on Feb.28 makes the next launch attempt 12:34am ET March 2, pending resolution of the technical issue.https://t.co/jiUq3jNH7S

— NASA Commercial Crew (@Commercial_Crew) February 27, 2023
This space mission will be historic as Sultan Al Neyadi will become the first person from the Emirate to spend a six-month-long-duration mission aboard the ISS.