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With weather conditions “near perfect” Wednesday, NASA is set to launch four “Crew-10” astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX rocket and rescue two astronauts who have been living in space for months.
The astronauts’ arrival at the orbiting laboratory will clear the way for Crew-9 to return to Earth, including NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams. The pair have been on board since last June.
Lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Dragon spacecraft is slated for 7:48 p.m. EDT from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. A NASA stream of the event was already live a little more than three hours beforehand. If all goes well, the crew is expected to dock at the space station by approximately 6 a.m. on Thursday.
The international group on Crew-10 includes NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos’ Kirill Peskov.
“Game Day,” McClain wrote in a post on the social media platform X.
Crew-10 is the tenth crew rotation mission of SpaceX’s human space transportation system and its 11th flight with astronauts.
The space agency said that when the Dragon capsule docks at the station, Crew-9 will familiarize their fellow astronauts with the station’s ongoing science and maintenance work.
“The crew will spend several months aboard the orbiting laboratory conducting spacewalks, research demonstrations and experiments for the benefit of humanity and deep space exploration,” NASA explained.
After a brief handover, and pending good weather, NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Williams, Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will head back home. Gorbunov and Hague came to the space station on a mission after Williams and Wilmore arrived.
“I'm looking forward to seeing my classmate, Expedition 59 crewmate, spacewalking partner, and friend [Anne McClain] float through the hatch. Go Crew-10!” wrote Hague.
Williams and Wilmore have spent an extra, and initially unexpected, nine months in zero gravity following issues after their Boeing Crew Flight Test: the first crewed mission of the capsule. The capsule returned to Earth without them last September in an unexpected uncrewed return after technical difficulties. That left Williams and Wilmore in space for longer than intended.
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The astronauts’ arrival at the orbiting laboratory will clear the way for Crew-9 to return to Earth, including NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams. The pair have been on board since last June.
Lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a Dragon spacecraft is slated for 7:48 p.m. EDT from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. A NASA stream of the event was already live a little more than three hours beforehand. If all goes well, the crew is expected to dock at the space station by approximately 6 a.m. on Thursday.
The international group on Crew-10 includes NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos’ Kirill Peskov.
“Game Day,” McClain wrote in a post on the social media platform X.
Crew-10 is the tenth crew rotation mission of SpaceX’s human space transportation system and its 11th flight with astronauts.
The space agency said that when the Dragon capsule docks at the station, Crew-9 will familiarize their fellow astronauts with the station’s ongoing science and maintenance work.
“The crew will spend several months aboard the orbiting laboratory conducting spacewalks, research demonstrations and experiments for the benefit of humanity and deep space exploration,” NASA explained.
After a brief handover, and pending good weather, NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Williams, Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will head back home. Gorbunov and Hague came to the space station on a mission after Williams and Wilmore arrived.
“I'm looking forward to seeing my classmate, Expedition 59 crewmate, spacewalking partner, and friend [Anne McClain] float through the hatch. Go Crew-10!” wrote Hague.
Williams and Wilmore have spent an extra, and initially unexpected, nine months in zero gravity following issues after their Boeing Crew Flight Test: the first crewed mission of the capsule. The capsule returned to Earth without them last September in an unexpected uncrewed return after technical difficulties. That left Williams and Wilmore in space for longer than intended.
SpaceX set for launch tonight to send new crew to space station and rescue astronauts who have been living in space for months
The astronauts’ arrival to the orbiting laboratory will clear the way for the return of NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams
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