SpaceX crew launch moved to next week as astronaut recovers

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)

SpaceX’s next crew flight is off until at least next week, as Nasa debates whether to bring astronauts back from the International Space Station before launching their replacements.

Flight surgeons, meanwhile, are continuing to monitor the “minor medical issue” affecting one of four astronauts awaiting lift-off at Kennedy Space Centre.