SpaceX Crew -10 commander Anne McClen Waves on March 7, 2025 on his arrival at Cape Canvart, Cape Canawral, Kennedy Space Center in Florida and on his arrival in landing facility. On March 15, NASA’s commercial crew to the International Space Station (ISS) on the tenth operating flight of the program.
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NASA and SpaceX on Wednesday delayed the launch of a replacement team of four astronauts for the International Space Station, which would set the long -awaited home return of American astronauts Buch Wilmor and Sun. Williams.
NASA was set to launch a SpaceX rocket from Florida, carrying a replacement crew for the international space station in a mission, stuck in space for nine months after a visit on the faulty Starelineer of Boeing.
NASA said in a statement that the launch was discontinued due to a hydraulic system issue with ground support clamp arm for Falcon 9 rockets.
Launch teams are working to address the issue, in another statement.
NASA said it is now targeting a launch before the EDT (2303 GMT) at 7:03 am when mission managers attempted a launch on Thursday due to high winds and rain forecasting in the Dragon flight road on Thursday.
With the launch of Friday’s crew -10, the Crew -9 mission with Astronauts Wilmor and Williams will depart on Wednesday, March 19, said this.
The US Space Agency carried forward the mission two weeks after President Donald Trump and his advisor Elon Musk, two weeks after SpaceX’s CEO, Wilmor and Williams were called to bring back first compared to NASA’s plan.
A employed eight-day migration at the orbiting station dragged both experienced astronauts and US naval testing pilots for Wilmore and Williams. Starlineer returned to Earth without him last year.
SpaceX’s rocket was determined to explode with a crew of two American astronauts from ET (2348 GMT) from Kennedy Space Center in Cap Canverals at 7:48 am and each from Japan and each from Russia to explode with an astronaut.
According to NASA, Wilmor and Williams are working on research and maintenance with other astronauts of Space Station and remain safe. Williams told reporters in a call on March 4 that he was eager to see his family and dogs when he returned home.
Williams said about his family, “This has been a roller coaster for him, perhaps a little more for us.” “We are here, we have a mission – we are just doing what we do every day, and every day is interesting because we are in space and it’s very fun.”
Flight, known as crew -10, will usually be considered a regular astronaut rotation. Instead, it is entangled in politics because Trump and Musk have demanded – without offering evidence – former President Joe Biden for conviction for the delay of Willmore and Williams.
The demand for earlier withdrawal by Trump and Musk was an unusual intervention in NASA’s human spaceflight operation. The Mission was earlier on the target date of 26 March, but NASA swaps a separate spacex capsule with a separate one that would soon be ready.
When the new crew rides the station, Willmore, Williams and two others – NASA astronaut Nick Hegs and Russian Cosmonot Alexandra Gorbunov – can return to Earth in a capsule that has been connected to the station since September, which is part of the former crew -9 mission.
Wilmore and Williams cannot leave until the new crew -10 craft comes so that the ISS, according to NASA, worked with enough American astronauts for maintenance.
Wilmore and Williams flew at the station in June as the first Test crew of Boeing’s Starlineer, which faced issues of the propulsion system in space. NASA considered it very risky for astronauts to fly homes on Boeing crafts. This inspired the current plan to bring home in a spacex capsule.
Boing SpaceX crew Drawon Capsule has been the only vehicle of the US Space Agency to send ISS crew members from the US earth to class from the US Earth since 2020 to compete with the Dragon Capsule. Last year’s mission had marked Starlineer’s first test flight with astronauts, a requirement before NASA could certify capsules for regular astronaut missions.
The development of Starliner has been plagued with engineering issues and cost overran since 2019, placed behind the SpaceX crew dragon, developed under NASA contracts, similar to the same at least $ 4 billion.
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