The successful launch of Dragon Spacex in the mission to get NASA astronauts on ISS returns to earth

The successful launch of Dragon Spacex in the mission to get NASA astronauts on ISS returns to earth

After the efforts that were rubbed this week, the Spacex Crew-10 NASA mission was successfully appointed Friday night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the international space station.

Astronaut Nasa Sunita “Suni” Williams and Butch Wilmore is now one step closer to return to the house of ISS.

Supported by the Falcon 9 rocket, the spaceship reaches a speed of 17,500 mph when heading out of space after being appointed on Friday at 19:03 et.

The screen image of NASA’s live broadcast shows the Spacex Falcon 9 rocket with the resistance dragon crew carrying the crew-10 mission based on the 39A launch complex at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on March 14, 2025.

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Docking at ISS is scheduled for Saturday at 11:30 at night ET. They will open the palka and enter the station at 1:05 et Sunday.

The launch was originally planned for Wednesday night but was postponed due to problems with the soil supporting arms on Falcon 9 rockets. Spacex then said the hydraulic system problem had been repaired and the crew was once again cleaned to take off on Friday.

Dragon transports the KRU-10 team consisting of Astronaut Nasa Anne McClain, Mission Commander; Astronaut Nasa Nichole Ayers, Pilot Mission; Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency Astronaut Takuya Onishi; and Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, with Roscosmo, Russian Space Agency.

Crew-10 will relieve four astronauts that are part of the current station crew, including Williams and Wilmore. The two astronauts planned to spend about one week at ISS, but the short stop turned into a nine -month mission when NASA decided that it was not safe to bring them home on the Starliner Boeing spacecraft they were driving to orbit.

This duo arrived at ISS in early June, but in September, Nasa chose to bring Starliner home empty because of concerns about technical problems with crafts. This mission marks Boeing’s first crew flight from Starliner. Starliner empty landed safely on earth on September 6.

Two American astronauts have been part of the ISS crew-9 team and have been actively involved in the station research and maintenance since then. A long time in space also allows Williams to break the record for the most time of space by a woman, with 62 hours and 6 minutes in the vacuum of space.

NASA has long insisted that Williams and Wilmore have never been trapped or stranded.

Astronaut flight Boeing Nasa butch Wilmore and Suni Williams in the front room between the front port in the Harmony Module of International Space Station and Starliner Space Aircraft.

NASA

In September, three months after the couple arrived at ISS, Roscosmos Soyuz’s spacecraft arrived at the station with two American cosmonauts and astronauts. A few weeks later, American astronauts Nick Hague and Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov arrived at the station on the spacex Spacex Crew Dragon Freedom. Both vehicles have remained closer to ISS and are available for emergencies since then.

Spacex Crew Dragon Freedom capsules carrying Hague and Gorbunov to ISS are currently docked at the station that will bring Williams, Wilmore and two other crew-9 astronauts at home. Endurance will remain close to the station together with Soyuz.

There is a overlapping period when the new team and the seven crew are currently working collaboratively to ensure smooth surrender. Nasa said Williams and Wilmore could go home soon on Wednesday.

NASA said that Crew-10 will do more than 200 scientific experiments and technological demonstrations during their mission to help humans finally enter deeper into space.

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