NASA has launched its crew-10 mission, relieving American astronauts Buch Wilmor and Sun. Williams-who have boarded the International Space Station (ISS) for the last nine months-and finally allowed them to return to Earth.
Falcon 9 rocket launched a routine from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday (March 14) as part of a routine ISS staff rotation on EDT at 7:04 pm.
The four astronauts in their top-mounted dragon capsules are: NASA’s Nicole Aires and Anne McClen, Roskosmos Astronaut Kiril Peskov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Tankuya Onashi. If everything goes to plan, the capsule will do the EDT on Saturday (March 15) at ISS.
Wilmore and Williams arrived at the ISS as part of Boeing’s first Starlineer Crew Test flight. Starlineer explodes on it Inaugural crew test flight On 5 June 2024 from Cape Canvarte Space Force Station, Florida. But not a long time after entering the class, many issues crops – including five Helium leak And its reaction control system (RCS) five failures of thrusters.
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The mission from this, originally was slated to walk as something as eight days, to pull for more than two months before NASA Announced its abandonment On August 24. Starlineer capsules ISS blown on 6 SeptemberReturn to Earth without a crew.
Waiting for the crew -10 rotation, Wilmore and Williams are demonstrating many maintenance tasks and participating in scientific projects.
His stay has been safe to a large extent but not completely without the incident. On 27 June, a faulty Russian satellite Separated in classSending debris towards ISS and forcing Williams and Wilmore, along with other seven astronauts on board, to cover inside their respective space capsules.
After a handover ceremony of crew from Crew 9, Wilmor and Williams, NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Roskosomos’ Alexander Gorbunov, will return home to the Dock Crew -9 capsule on March 19. About 300 days – In 1995, the Russian Cosmonot Valery Polycov had no longer a current record of 437 days, but still a long race.
Tonight’s launch is the third attempt to launch Crew -10 mission, which was scrubbed after the issue of hydraulic system on Wednesday (March 12) and is being done on the basis of high winds and rainfall in the flight path of rocket next Thursday (March 13), on the basis of high winds and rainfall. According to NASA,
Wilmore said, “We were ready to stay for a long time, even though we plan to stay short,” Wilmore said during a news conference that returned from ISS on 4 March. “That’s what we do Human spacecraftThis is about your country’s human spaceflight program – plan for unknown, unexpected contingencies. And we did so. ,
