SpaceX launched a new crew at Space Station to replace NASA’s stuck astronauts

Cape Canvart, Fla. , NASA’s replacement for two stuck astronauts was launched at the International Space Station on Friday night, which paves the way for the pair to the pair after nine long months.

Buch Wilmore and Sun. Williams require spacex so that they can take this relief team to the space station, before they can investigate. The arrival is scheduled for late Saturday night.

NASA wants to overlap between two employees to fill the events in the laboratory revolving new people. This will put them on the course for an indiscriminate next week and the Florida coast, for a spatting for the weather permission.

The pair will be withdrawn by astronauts, who flew on a rescue mission on SpaceX last September, with two vacant seats reserved for Wilmor and Williams on Returns legs.

Arriving in class from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the latest crew consists of both NASA’s Anne McClen and Nicole Aerce Military Pilots; And both former airline pilots of Takua Onashi of Japan and Kiril Peskov of Russia. They will spend the next six months at the space station, which will consider the general term after freeing Wilmore and Williams.

“Spaceflight is hard, but humans are hard,” McClane said in minutes in the flight.

As Test pilots for Boeing’s new Starlineer Capsules, Wilmor and Williams were expected to leave for just a week or a week when they launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 June. A series of helium leaks and thruster failures killed their journey at the space station, which examines the months of investigation by NASA and Boeing to move forward.

Finally, it was unsafe, NASA ordered Starlineer to take off empty flying last September and shifted Wilmore and Williams back to a spacex flight in February. When SpaceX’s brand new capsules required extensive battery repair before launching their replacement, their return was further delayed. To save a few weeks, SpaceX switched to a used capsules, taking the home return of Wilmor and Williams to the middle of March.

Already attracting the attention of the world, his unexpectedly long mission took a political turn when President Donald Trump and SpaceX’s Elon Musk blamed the return of astronauts earlier this year for accelerating the return of astronauts and stopping the pre -administration.

Retired Navy captains who live at the first space station, Wilmor and Williams repeatedly stressed that they have supported the decisions made by their NASA owners since last summer. Both helped to keep the station running – fixing a broken toilet, watering plants and operating experiments – and even went out on a spacewalk together. With nine spacewalk, Williams set a new record for women: spent the most time in spacewalking on a career.

The one final -minute hydrolics issue delayed the attempt to launch early Wednesday. One of the two clamp weapons arose over the support structure of the Falcon rocket, which needs to be bent away just before the lift. SpaceX later evacuated the arm’s hydraulics system, removing the stranded air.

The couple’s extended migration has been the most difficult, he said, on their families – Wilmore’s wife and two daughters, and Williams’ husband and mother. In addition to the reunion with him, Wilmore, eager to return to a church’s big, face-to-face minister and Williams cannot wait for two of his Labrador retrievers to walk.

Williams said in an interview earlier this week, “We all appreciate all love and support.” “This mission has paid little attention. There is luggage and bad. But I think good part is more and more interested in what we are doing “with space exploration.

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