THE SPACEX CREW-10 MISSION will be launched on the night of Wednesday (12) and will take four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and will surrender the NASA astronauts who departed from the earth with Starliner, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, and still failed to return.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft will take the astronauts of the American agency Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers-the commander and the pilot, respectively-, JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos (Russian space agency) Kirill Peskov for a stay of about four months-with a return to return in spring of spring of 2025.
Upon the arrival of the new crew and a transitional period, four ISS residents will return to Earth aboard another Dragon crew spacecraft, ending the Crew-9 mission. Among them, Nick Hague, Aleksandr Gorbunov and Starliner Astronauts Williams and Wilmore
Delays in Crew-10
NASA expected to use a newly settled Crew Dragon capsule to launch the CREW-10 as early as February, but in December the space agency revealed that mission teams needed more “time to complete processing” in the Spacex capsule.
This is why the return date of Williams and Wilmore’s Crew-9 mission has moved from February to the end of March.
With the latest plans announced by NASA, however, the agency will use Crew Dragon Endurance, which has already performed three missions, the latest of them Crew-7, which returned to Earth in March 2024 after a seven-month stay at the space station.
Astronauts were “stuck in space” for months
Williams and Wilmore have been at the International Space Station since last June. Piloting the manned inaugural mission of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, the duo went through a turbulent journey there.
Astronauts were initially scheduled to spend about a week in the orbital laboratory.
After Starliner arrived at the space station, NASA and Boeing worked for weeks to better understand problems – including helium leaks and propulsion problems – which affected the first stage of the test flight.
NASA officers finally decided that it was very risky to send the Starliner back to Earth with the crew. Williams and Wilmore have become official members of the space station team while awaiting their return home with the other members of the Spacex Crew-9 mission.
Reminiscent
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This content was originally published in Meet Crew-10, SpaceX mission that will release Starliner astronauts on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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