SpaceX launches astronauts for the team’s team exchange for the long -awaited international space
SpaceX successfully launched four people in space on Friday, starting a mission that will give the international space station enough crew members to allow astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to return to Earth after their nine -month stay.
The mission, known as Crew-10, will see the Quai du Vaisseau spaceau Dragon de Spacex with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday evening. The new astronauts will overlap with the crew existing for a few days before Williams and Wilmore (as well as two others) come back to our planet. This could happen on March 19, allows it for a while.
The SpaceX crew launches towards the ISS has become a routine, but this mission was highly anticipated because of the way Williams and Wilmore arrived at the station first – and because the CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, blamed their prolonged stay at former President Joe Biden.
The duo was part of the first crew launch of the Boeing Starliner spaceship last June. The test mission was supposed to be a crucial step in the quest for Boeing to compete with SpaceX for these types of crew launches to the ISS.
Starliner was supposed to dock with the ISS for 10 days before returning Williams and Wilmore on Earth. But the spacecraft experienced leaks and propulsion problems, which prevented the starlinener of mooring with the ISS.
Starliner finally associated with the station and the astronauts were able to board. But Boeing and Nasa spent weeks carrying out tests and analyzes before they decided in August To bring Starliner back to empty earth.
NASA and SpaceX agreed to bring the astronauts home during the next crew mission at ISS, CREW-9. They chased two astronauts from this flight to welcome the return of Williams and Wilmore. A return flight was scheduled for February 2025; An anterior flight would have left the Subsonnel of the ISS, according to NASA.
While Williams and Wilmore were aboard the ISS, Musk finished helping Donald Trump Unleashed by the federal government with its government’s effectiveness department. Musk started to say – both on X and in interviews – that he offered to bring the astronauts back Earlier but Biden refused for political reasons.
Musk has provided no evidence in support of this assertion. The former administrator and assistant administrator of NASA under Biden a both said that no Musk offer has arrived at the headquarters of the space agency.
