Roscosmos made a decision to postpone launch of Soyuz-FG with Soyuz spacecraft on atop.
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The Soyuz spacecraft was supposed to carry three crew members as part of Expedition 49 to the International Space Station.
Roscosmos announced about delay in the Expedition 49 schedule on September 17.
The Soyuz MS-02 is the not the only delay experienced in the aerospace world today.
Russian space program Roscosmos announced its next space station crew launch has been postponed indefinitely.
The launch of the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft had been slated for Friday, but Roscosmos chose to postpone it after routine tests. MISSion with launch planned on 23rd September 2016 from Launch Pad 31 at Baikonur Cosmodrome has not new launch date at the moment.
NASA managers are awaiting details from the Russians on what might be needed to fix the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft and when it might be ready for launch.
The three current occupants of the space station – NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin, who is commanding the station – were originally scheduled to come back to Earth Oct. 30.
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But in a one-sentence announcement on its web page early Saturday, Roscosmos, the Russian federal space agency, said the launch had been delayed “for technical reasons after tests at the Baikonur Space Center”.
