by NASA’s next international space station shot down on Friday, Finally clear the way For Starliner -astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams, which were made home by two other outgoing station crew members next week and finally close an extensive space odyssey.
Crew-10 Commandant Anne McClain, Pilot Nichole Ayers, the Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and the Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov have written off in the Kennedy Space Center at 7:03 p.m. EDT from Historic Pad 39 and dismantled a spectacular show with a long failure of the Kennedy Space-Mitte.
Ten minutes after the upswing – and a dramatic first stage at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station – the Crew Dragon Capsule was released from the upper stage of the Rocket to fly alone.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Capsule Duration, which bears the crew 10 mission on the start complex 39a in the Kennedy Space Center of NASA on March 14, 2025 in Florida.
When it moved, a camera showed in the second stage of Falcon 9, which a source described as insulation from the second stage of the Falcon 9. During the unusual occupation dragon it was reported that he was in good condition and was ready to hunt down the space station.
After the start, a kind of some kind drives away from the Falcon 9 rocket. March 14, 2025. / Credit: NASA
Given a punctual downturn
You will be greeted by Crew 9 Commander Nick Hague, cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, Wilmore and Williams together with the cosmonauts Alexsey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner and Nasa -Astronaut Don Pettit, who were launched at a Russian Soyuz Spacecraft last September.
The crew 10 planes that can be seen during training. From left to right: Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, Nasa pilot Nichole Ayers, NASA commander Anne McClain and the Japanese Astronaut Takuya Onishi. All four are pilots. Peskov and Onishi are experienced commercial jetliner pilots, Ayers is a former Air Force F-22 Raptor Pilot, and McClain is an aviator of the army champions and fighting helicopter pilot. / Credit: NASA
Haag and Gorbunov were started on board the Crew 9 Dragon September. Two NASA astronauts, which originally planned on this flight, were thrown by the mission to free two seats for Wilmore and Williams. They became part of Crew 9 and worked for the duration of their six -month mission with Haag and Gorbunov.
The crew 9 flight leaves plan to familiarize two days with the subtleties of the space station before they made their own crew dragon, who was wearing Hague and Gorbunov last September, for the Haag and Gorbunov journey home.
The flight schedule provides that the stage for re -entry and the jump off Florida’s golf coast will be prepared on Tuesday this weekend. At that time, Wilmore And Williams If about 290 days – 9.7 months – will have registered in space on a flight that will originally take a little longer than a week. Haag and Gorbunov’s time in space will come for about 174 days depending on the country.
“This is a big mission for us at Crew 10,” said Steve State, manager of the Commercial Crew program, the SpaceX crew dragons and Boeing’s Starliner. “They are all big, but this started up to crew 9 when we started this mission with two empty seats, and we had this seats that were reserved butt.”
The Starliner Pilot Sunita Williams, Links, and Commander Butch Wilmore prepare a provisional pizza dinner on board the international space station. The Starliner astronauts, which were started last June, ended a stay in space for a long time. / Credit: NASA
The Starliner astronauts “just did a phenomenal job,” said Stosch, “and that’s why we look forward to bringing them back.”
Wilmore and Williams were Started on board 5 June on board a Boeing Starlin capsule For the first piloted test flight of the spacecraft. The next day they successfully created with the international space station, but the Starliner experienced several leaks for the helium drive system, and several maneuvering nozzles did not produce the expected thrust.
The astronauts originally planned to spend about eight days in space, but NASA and Boeing, the building contractor of the Starliner, carried out weeks with tests and analyzes to determine whether the Starliner could be trustworthy to safely bring his crew back to earth.
By August, Boeing managers were convinced that engineers understood the problems and that the crew could surely come home in the Starliner. But the NASA managers have excluded this option. Instead, they decided to keep the astronauts on board the station until Early this year If you could move back on board the crew 9 dragon.
The Starliner successfully returned to Earth in September and started practical troubleshooting and ongoing work to prepare for the possible resumption of flights.
The Starliner astronauts took the news of their mission expansion in step.
“Butch, and I knew that this was a test flight, we knew that we would probably find some things (who didn’t work as expected), and we found some things” An interview in flight. “And that was not a surprise. The discussion passed the summer, and when things were rolled out and dissolved, we understood that we could be up here a little longer.
“And that is our work. We were both in the military, both marine boys, our missions have been expanded. They do the right thing for the team and what was right for the team is to stay up here and to be expeditions -crew members for the international space station.”
The crew 9-pilot posed during the convening of their SpaceX crew dragon capsule. From left to right: Starlin pilot Sunita Williams, cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, Commandant Nick Hague and Starliner Commander Barry
President Trump The extended mission of the bidet management accusedWhat he said had “left” the Starliner crew.
“Biden left it up there,” said Trump on March 6th reporters from the Oval Office. He said “yes”. He is preparing to go in two weeks. “
But Wilmore and Williams will not bring back to Earth. The crew is assigned 10 planes and remains docked at the outpost for the next five months. However, their arrival is clear how Crew 9, including Wilmore and Williams, finally return to Earth together with Hague and Gorbunov.
Musk previously said he offered to start a mission to bring Wilmore and Williams back to Earth, but the offer was rejected for political reasons. The NASA managers say that they have never heard of such an offer and that the current plan causes the slightest disturbance of the station operation and the downstream crew rotation flights.
While NASA could have brought the crew 9 on board the Crew 9 Dragon earlier, but that would have left a single astronaut – pettite – on board the laboratory to operate and wait for the US segment of the space station. Research would have led to a standstill and he would have had difficulties in a variety of emergency scenarios.
“Sure, it could have brought us home, but that only leaves three people on the space station from the Sojuz crew, two Russians and one American,” Williams told CBS News. “And, you know, the space station is big. It is a building, you know, it’s the size of a soccer field. Things happen.
“Things can go wrong and you have to be able to repair it either inside and outside. And so it is really important to have additional people to do this.”
Both Wilmore and Williams repeatedly said they were not “stranded” and were not “left” in space.
“That was the story from day one, stranded, abandoned, stuck, and I understand that we both get it,” Wilmore told a reporter in a recent interview. “But again that is not what our human spatial flight program is all about. We don’t feel left, we don’t feel stuck, we don’t feel stranded.
“We are prepared. We are committed. This is your human space flight program. It is preparing for all eventualities that we can imagine and we prepare for them.
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