arrive. Three astronauts and one SpaceX Crew-10 Mission astronaut docked with the International Space Station after midnight on Sunday. The lift went smoothly last Friday at 7:03 pm ET, when the Falcon 9 rocket lifted the Dragon Spacecraft (called Endurance) into space.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, astronauts Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov have now arrived at ISS
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Return to “stand” astronaut
Crew 10 has a lot more than a typical crew rotation task. NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore became a long-time ISS resident after riding on a test mission in Boeing’s Starliner Crew Capsule. The crew capsule encountered technical problems and was sent back to Earth without astronauts.
Williams and Wilmore’s ISS unexpectedly extended for more than eight months. The arrival of CREW-10 means Willams, Wilmore, NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will be able to hand over ISS duties to new immigrants and return to Earth in the SpaceX Dragon sent in September. The dragon came home with two open seats to the Starliner Crew’s journey.
With Friday’s release, nine crew members, including the heavily postponed Williams and Wilmore, will leave the station no earlier than Wednesday, March 19, depending on the weather at the splash location on the Florida coast.
Both Williams and Wilmore insist that they won’t be bothered, although the term has been widely used in news coverage and social media.
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