SpaceX launches astronauts for long -awaited international space station crew swap

SpaceX successfully launched four people in space on Friday, launching a mission that will allow astronaut Suni Williams and Butch Wilmor to return to Earth after their nine months of investment.

The mission, called the Crew -10, will see the Dragon SpaceCraft Dock of SpaceX with the International Space Station (ISS) late Saturday. Williams and Wilmor (with two others) will overlap with the existing crew for a few days before returning to our planet. It can allow weather permit with March 19.

The SpaceX crew has been launched in ISS, but this mission is expected due to how Williams and Wilmor arrived at the station in the first place – and because SpaceX CEO Alon Musk has convicted his prolonged investment on former president B Biden.

The pair was part of the launch of the first crew of Boeing Starliner Spacecraft in June. The test mission was considered a crucial landmark in search of Boeing to compete with SpaceX for this type of crew launch in ISS.

Williams and Wilmor had to be docked with ISS for 10 days before returning to Earth. But the spacecraft experienced leaks and throster problems, which delayed starliner docking with ISS.

Eventually joined the Starliner station and astronauts were able to Board. But Boeing and NASA spent weeks to test and analyze August Decisions in Gust To bring a starliner to the earth.

NASA and SpaceX agreed to bring astronauts home to ISS, crew -9 on the upcoming crew mission. They knocked that flight to two astronauts to accommodate Williams and Wilmor’s return. The return flight was held for February 2025; According to NASA, the previous flight ISS would have left underguent.

While Williams and Wilmor were riding on ISS, however, Musk Donald Trump finished helping picking up the second time, and started it Anger by the federal government with the government’s efficiency department. Began to say musk – on both X and interviews – that he Offer to bring back astronauts Earlier, he refused Bide for political reasons.

Kasturi did not provide any evidence to support this claim. NASA has a former administrator and deputy administrator under Biden Both Impolite It did not lead to any offer of Kasturi to the headquarters of the space agency.