Cape canaveral: NASA and SpaceX have announced the postponement of the Crew-12 mission launch to the International Space Station, citing unfavorable weather forecasts. The launch, initially scheduled for Wednesday, has been rescheduled for Thursday morning, as per the statement released by the US space agency on Monday.

According to Anadolu Agency, the decision to delay the launch was made after mission teams conducted a weather review and decided to forgo the Wednesday launch opportunity due to adverse weather conditions expected along the trajectory of the Dragon spacecraft. The new target for liftoff is no earlier than 5:38 am local time (1038GMT) on Thursday from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The crew, which includes NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, remain in quarantine at Kennedy Space Center in Florida as they await the next available launch window. The astronauts are set to travel aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, which will be launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40.

The return of the previous mission, Crew-11, was noted when a SpaceX Dragon carrying scientists from NASA, Roscosmos, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency returned to Earth on January 15. NASA mentioned that the crew's early return was a precautionary measure following the monitoring of a medical concern involving one member, although further details were not disclosed.