by Four astronauts prepare for the international space station on Wednesday. Your arrival will ultimately begin the process to bring the NASA astronaut Onens Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.
Williams and Wilmore have been the focus of the public attention since they started the first crewed test flight from Boeing on the first test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spaceship in June. Although the plan asked to stay on the space station for about a week, they have now spent nine months in orbit.
The Boeing capsule, on which the couple was launched, occurred on his trip to the ISS several problems, including throttle misalignment and leader drive. So NASA decided to bring the Starliner craft back to earth with no one on board and to leave the two astronauts on the orbit.
The NASA then switched the crew rotations to free the seats on a SpaceX kite capsule so that Williams and Wilmore can return home.
This capsule arrived at the space station on September 29 and wore Nasa astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. The plan stipulates that Wilmore and Williams stop with them at the end of their about six months of mission.
This time is approaching while the new crew is preparing for the start. On Wednesday, NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, the Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and the Russian Kosmonaut Kirill Peskov drives. It is expected that in a mission known as crew-10, you are going into orbit on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Lifowff is planned at 7:48 p.m. by the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Florida.
The crew-10 astronauts will arrive at the space station on Thursday and start at 6 a.m. From there they will take over from the four that complete.
The four crew members of the crew 9 mission: NASA-astronauten Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on February 26 on board the international space.
Although NASA’s plan for Williams and Wilmores return has remained relatively consistent since its announcement in August, SpaceCEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump recently made unfounded claims that the bid administration held the flight back on earth for political reasons.
The comments that Musk made in a joint interview with Trump, which was broadcast on Fox News last month, led to a public spit on X between Musk and several current and retired astronauts. The European astronaut Andreas Mogensen called Musk’s comments a “lie” and musk fired back and called Mogensen an “idiot” and a derogatory term. The retired astronauts Scott Kelly, Mark Kelly and Chris Hadfield also weighed online.
NASA claimed that its decision on the time of returning Williams and Wilmore was based on the safety of the crew members and the space station. The agency in December delayed the start of the crew-10 until the end of March to give more time to process a new kite capsule, but the NASA and SpaceX ultimately decided to use a spaceship that had previously flown to shorten the waiting. (The dragon capsules from SpaceX are reusable.)
An exact date for Williams and Wilmores return to Earth has not yet been announced. The transfer time of the ISS usually takes several days, while the outgoing crew members train and inform their incoming colleagues in experiments and other ongoing work.
The NASA and SpaceX also monitor the conditions at the targeted splashdown locations in front of Florida before announcing an official landing date.
This article was originally published on nbcnews.com
