SpaceX delays flight to replace NASA's stuck astronauts after launch pad problem
Cape Canaveral (US) (AP): A launch pad problem prompted SpaceX to delay a flight to the International Space Station on Wednesday to replace NASA's two stuck astronauts - Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
The new crew needs to get to the International Space Station before the two can head home after nine months in orbit.
Concerns over a critical hydraulic system arose less than four hours before the Falcon rocket's planned evening liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. As the countdown clocks ticked down, engineers evaluated the hydraulics used to release one of the two arms clamping the rocket to its support structure. This structure needs to tilt back right before liftoff.
Already strapped into their capsule, the four astronauts awaited a final decision, which came down with less than an hour remaining in the countdown. SpaceX canceled for the day. Officials later said the launch was off until at least Friday.
Once at the space station, the U.S., Japanese and Russian crew will replace Wilmore and Williams, who have been up there since June. The two test pilots had to move into the space station for an extended stay after Boeing's new Starliner capsule encountered major breakdowns in transit.
Starliner's debut crew flight was supposed to last just a week, but NASA ordered the capsule to return empty and transferred Wilmore and Williams to SpaceX for the return leg.
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Mumbai couple loses Rs 72 lakh in forex trading fraud; one held, two still at large
Mumbai (PTI): The Mumbai police have arrested a man for allegedly cheating a couple of Rs 72 lakh in a forex trading fraud, officials said.
A search was underway for two other accused individuals -- a man and his son -- in the case, they said.
The victims in their police complaint said they got in touch with the accused three years back.
The three accused told the couple, residents of Borivali in Mumbai, that they were major investors and ran a successful forex trading business. They claimed that many people had invested with them and earned significant returns, an official from Kasturba Marg police station said on Tuesday.
Trusting their assurances, the couple invested Rs 72.5 lakh in instalments between April and August 2022.
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Initially, the accused paid them some amount, but later stopped making payments. When questioned, they promised to repay the principal amount along with returns. But the cheques they issued bounced, and the accused stopped answering calls, the official said.
Following this, the victims filed a police complaint, based on which a case had been registered against the accused for criminal breach of trust, cheating, and other relevant charges.
The three accused went absconding soon after the case was registered, the official said.
The police managed to arrest one of the accused, Rajendra Nerlikar, on December 6 after tracking him for nearly two years, he said.
During interrogation, he confessed to luring several people in Mumbai and Kolhapur into forex trading investments and cheating them, the official said.
Search was on for the two other co-accused, hailing from Kolhapur, the police added.
