The new Crew-10 mission with SpaceX will send four astronauts to bring back Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. The crew has been stranded for six months and recently received flights with food and necessities.
The POT and SpaceX They postponed the launch of the new manned mission to the International Space Station (EEI), not before the end of March 2025which will delay the return of astronauts stranded since June, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.
The new mission, called Crew-10will send NASA astronauts to the ISS Anne McClain and Nichole Ayersto the astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and the cosmonaut Kirill Peskow from Roscosmos.
The space agency reported that the rescue mission was initially scheduled for February next year but, due to certain imperfections and the conditioning of the new Dragon shipthe return of the two aeronauts will exceed the nine months waiting in space.
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What happened to Suri Williams and Butch Wilmore
The mission SpaceX Crew-9 of the agency, will return to the Land with the astronauts of the NASA Nick Hagueand with the cosmonaut Roscosmos Aleksandr Gorbunovafter the arrival of Crew-10 to the orbital laboratory, NASA confirmed.
“The SpaceX Crew-10 mission NASA now aims to launch four members of the crew to the International Space Station no earlier than end of March 2025“, announced the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Williams and Wilmore They were stranded in space since June this yeardue to technical problems with the Starliner of Boeing that took them to the ISS. In September There was an attempt to return them, but due to serious thruster failures and helium leaks from the Starliner, the ship returned empty.
Due to the large number of months that the two astronauts stayed, the space station recently received two resupply flights with everything the crew needs, including food, oxygen, water and clothes.
Source: Ambito
