On Friday, four astronauts were launched on their way to the International Space Station.
The Spacex Falcon 9 missile was stopped at 7:03 pm East time from the Kennedy Space Center in NASA in Florida.
This is a routine rotation of the crew at the space station, but it is receiving additional attention because it will allow the return to the Earth from Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, a NASA astronaut, and his short visit to the space station last June extended to more than nine months.
The residence of Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor was extended at at least two days when the first attempt to launch this task was canceled on Wednesday, with less than 45 minutes remaining the countdown. The task control units were unable to solve a hydraulic problem with the cabinet that adheres to the missile up to a few minutes before the launch.
On Friday, the countdown was smoothly moved with the missile lifted on time to the clear sky. As usual, the supporter decreased from Falcon 9 and landed on a board near the launch site while the second stage continued in orbit.
A few minutes after finishing the second stage of burning its engine, the Dragon Crew spacecraft was separated with astronauts.
“Thanks to all the teams from all over the world who have contributed at all today,” Ann MacLean, the NASA astronaut who is the commander of the mission, known as Crew-10. “A difficult space space. Humans are more strict. “
Dragon Crew Dragon will join the space station late on Saturday.
Who is going to space on a 10 crew?
In addition to Mrs. Malikin, Nicole Aires of NASA is the pilot, and the other crew member is Takoya Ounishi from Jaksa, the Japanese Space Agency, and Kirill Peskov from Roskosmos, the Russian Space Agency.
Space pioneers chose an Origami Crochet crane as the task of their mission. As she described it, Mrs. Malikin highlighted the international diversity of her crew, and said they were united in exchanging optimism.
“Crew-10 chooses to go together in peace because you cannot be great without the greatness of others,” she said.
This will be the first distance of the lady for Mrs. Airez, Mr. Peskov, the second lady of Mrs. Malikin and Mr. Ounishi.
Will Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore be saved after they were cut off in orbit?
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The spacecraft that will return the Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been drawn at the space station since late September and could have returned to Earth at any time.
Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor launched to the space station in June last year to test a test in Starlener, a astronaut capsule built under NASA by Boeing. Because of the payment problems, NASA officials decided that Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor will not return to Earth in Starlener. In early September, the spacecraft did not remove from the space station, entered the atmosphere and landed in New Mexico without any problems.
As when an airline is scrambling to restore the passenger book after canceling a flight, NASA was forced to find seats on a trip to Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor.
The next space crew was Crew-9, which was raised two weeks after Starliner left the space station without anyone on board. Space pioneers who were appointed on the trip were manufactured, leaving two seats in the Dragon Crew Crew Crew capsule for Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor on the return trip.
Thus, the Crew-9 astronauts can be repeated at any time after that, but that would have left the space station suffering from a lack of employees, affecting scientific experiments, operations and maintenance.
NASA and Spacex could have accelerated the Crew-10 mission to launch it earlier, but NASA officials decided that it is better for Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor to join the space station crew and maintain the scheduled schedule of crew 10.
When will Williams and Wilmmore return to Earth?
Crew-10 will reach the space station 11:30 pm on Saturday.
Space pioneers will overlap at Crew-9 and Crew-10 for a few days at the space station. About four days after the launch of the Crew-10, Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor-alongside Nick The Hague from NASA and Alexander Gorbonov, and the astronaut who connected to the 9-on the spacecraft of the spacecraft and head, maybe, perhaps as soon as March 19.
Their stay can be extended again if there is a bad weather in the possible Splashdown sites off the coast of Florida.
What did the astronauts say about their extended stay?
In an interview published last month on Friday, Michael Barbaro asked, “The Daily”, astronauts, “so, if not stuck, how do you describe this scenario that you find in it?”
“This is a great question,” said Mr. Willmur. “I would like to say it’s work. It’s a great pleasure. It was fun. He was sometimes trying, but they were cut off? No.
This was the third journey to the space of Mrs. Williams, 59, and Mr. Willmor, 62, and they realize that it may be the last. “We are heading home,” said Ms. Williams. “This makes you really want to enjoy everything from your time you have.”
Michael Barbaro The reports contributed.