The’ve arrived. The three astronauts and one cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission docked with the Worldwide House Station simply after midnight Sunday. Liftoff went easily, at 7:03 p.m. ET on Friday, when a Falcon 9 rocket lifted the Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, to house.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Company astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov have now arrived on the ISS
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Return of ‘stranded’ astronauts
Crew-10 has a bit extra using on it than a typical crew rotation mission. NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore grew to become long-term ISS residents after using to the station on a take a look at mission for Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule. The crew capsule encountered technical points and was despatched again to Earth with out the astronauts.
Williams and Wilmore’s ISS keep unexpectedly stretched out for greater than eight months. Crew-10’s arrival means Willams, Wilmore, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will be capable of hand off ISS duties to the newcomers and return to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon despatched up in September. That Dragon arrived with two open seats for the Starliner crew’s journey dwelling.
With the Friday launch profitable, the Crew-9 members, together with the much-delayed Williams and Wilmore, will depart the house station no sooner than Wednesday, March 19, relying on the climate on the splashdown areas off the coast of Florida.
Each Williams and Wilmore have insisted they do not really feel stranded, although that time period has been extensively utilized to them in information tales and social media.
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