A Falcon 9 rocket launched four astronauts safely in a job on Friday evening for the official start of the Crew-10 mission to the international space station.
Although every crew slices is remarkable, this mission comes with an extra bit of importance, because its success clears the way for two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to eventually return after a saga after a nine -month Saga.
Friday's launch came two days after a first attempt was scrubbed on Wednesday evening. This was due to a hydraulic problem with the soil systems that handle the Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39a in Florida.
There were no technical issues on Friday, and with a clear sky Nasa astronauts Anne Mcclain and Nichole Ayers, the Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov shot smoothly in a job.
If all goes well, the crew Dragon -Space Varitage with the four astronauts will moor on Saturday at 11.30 p.m. with the space station. They will spend about six months there.
A long, strange journey
After their arrival at the Space Station, the members of Crew-10 will participate in a transfer ceremony with the four astronauts of Crew-9, including Wilmore and Williams. The members of Crew 9 will free this before departure from the station already in the Wednesday 19 March, awaiting good weather in the waters around Florida for Splashdown or Dragon.
