A SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts to the international space station on Sunday in the crew mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which will allow a pair of stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to return home after nine months on the orbit laboratory.
Friday, around 29 hours after the launch at 7:03 p.m. He of the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Florida, the crew of the crew crew crew-10 granted the ISS at 12:04 p.m. on Sunday.
They were welcomed by the crew of seven station members, which includes veterans astronauts from Wilmore and Williams – NASA veteran pilots and retired navy test pilots who stayed at the station after problems with the Boeing Starliner capsule in Boeing, NASA forced NASA to bring it to Reduction.
Otherwise, a rotation flight of the routine crew, the mission of the crew -10 is a long -awaited first step to bring back Wilmore and Williams on Earth – which is part of a plan established by NASA last year which was granted more emergency by President Donald Trump since he took office in January.
Wilmore and Williams are expected to leave the ISS on Wednesday from 4:00 a.m., as well as the nasa astronaut Nick Hague and the Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
The Hague and Gorbunov flew to ISS in September on a dragon crafts with two empty seats for Wilmore and Williams, and this machine has been attached to the station since.
The crew of the crew-10, scheduled to stay at the station for about six months, includes the astronauts of NASA Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, the Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi Onishi and the Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.
The crew exchange mission has prevented in politics while Trump and his Elon Musk advisor, who is also CEO of SpaceX, urged a faster launch of the crew-10. They said, without evidence, that Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, had abandoned Wilmore and Williams on the station for political reasons.
After seeing their mission turn into a normal NASA rotation at ISS, Wilmore and Williams have done scientific research and carried out a routine interview with the other five astronauts.
Williams told journalists this month that she was looking forward to going home to see her two dogs and family. “It was a roller coaster for them, probably a little more than for us,” she said.
