Following a scrubbed attempt this week, NASA’s SpaceX Crew -10 mission led to the International Space Station on Friday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday evening.
NASA astronaut Sunita “Suna” Williams and Buch Wilmore are now close to one step to return home from ISS.
A Falcon operated by 9 rocket, the spacecraft reached a speed of 17,500 mph as it moved into space after getting up on ET at 7:03 pm on Friday.
The scrability image of NASA’s Live Broadcast has shown the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Crew Dragon Capsule Dheeraj, a crew dragon capsule endoring the crew -10 mission from Complex 39A from 39A, launched on March 14, 2025.
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Docking at ISS is scheduled on ET at 11:30 pm on Saturday. They will open the hatch and enter the station at 1:05 pm on Sunday.
The launch was initially planned for Wednesday evening, but was postponed due to a problem with a ground support clamp arm on Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX later stated that the issue of the hydraulic system was finalized and the crew was once again approved for the take-off on Friday.
The Dragon Mission Commander, NASA astronaut is transporting a crew -10 team made from Anne McClane; NASA astronaut Nicole Aerce, Mission Pilot; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Astronaut Takuya Onici; And cosmonot Kiril Peskov, with Russia’s Space Agency Rokosmo.
Crew -10 will provide relief to four astronauts who are part of the current station crew including Williams and Wilmore. Two astronauts planned to spend about a week on the ISS, but the brief stop turned into a nine -month mission when NASA determined that Boeing Starlineer spacecraft was unsafe to bring him home at a spacecraft.
The pair arrived at the ISS in early June, but in September, NASA opted to bring Starlineer back to the vacant house due to concerns about technical issues with crafts. The mission identified the flight of the first crew of Starlineer of Boeing. An empty Starlineer returned safely on Earth on 6 September.
The two American astronauts became part of the ISS Crew -9 team and have been actively engaged in the research and maintenance of the station since then. Extended time in space also allowed Williams to break the record for the most spacewalking time by a woman, with 62 hours and 6 minutes in the vacuum of the space.
NASA has long stressed that Williams and Wilmore were once stuck or trapped.
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Astronauts Buch Wilmor and Sun Williams Between the Hormony modules of the International Space Station and the port on the Starlineer Spacecraft.
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In September, three months after the pair came to the ISS, a Rososmos Soyuz spacecraft arrived at the station with two cosmonots and an American astronaut. Several weeks later, American astronaut Nick Hague and Cosmonot Alexandra Gorbunov SpaceX Crew arrived at the station on the dragon Freedom Spacecraft. Both vehicles have been docked in ISS and have been available for emergency since then.
SpaceX crew Dragon Freedom Capsules that have been brought to the ISS to Hegs and Gorbunov, currently docked at the station that brings back home to Williams, Wilmor and two other crew -9 astronauts. Dock will be done at the station with Dheeraj Soyuz.
The duration of overlap is when the new team and the current crew of seven work cooperatively to ensure a smooth handover. NASA has said that Williams and Wilmore may soon be houses on Wednesday.
NASA said that Crew -10 would organize more than 200 scientific experiments and technology performances during its mission to help humans to go deep into space.
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