On April 23, 2021, at 5:49 a.m, a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Flo

SpaceX False Alarm Encounter with “Unknown Object” – April 2021 – The NASA Documents

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2021-07-24 08:30:04

On April 23, 2021, at 5:49 a.m, a Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Their destination was the International Space Station (ISS), but while en route, they had a bit of a scare.

The launch went by without a hitch — but the crew of four did experience a scare while en route to the International Space Station when they were notified of a potential collision with an unidentified object.

“The NASA/SpaceX team was informed of the possible conjunction by US Space Command,” NASA spokesperson Kelly Humphries told Futurism. “The object being tracked is classified as ‘unknown.’”

There was no time, Humphries said, to perform an avoidance maneuver to get out of the way of the object. Instead, SpaceX advised that the astronauts put on their pressurized suits in case of a collision.

A spokesman for the NASA Johnson Space Center said the warning of a possible collision was in fact based on a “false report.”