Cape Canaveral, FLA. (AP) – Quickly a day after shooting, a SpaceX certainty capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday and the replacements delivers two permanent astronauts for NASA's.
The four newcomers – who represent the US, Japan and Russia – will spend in the coming days with learning the ins and outs of the station of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Then the two will be tied in their own SpaceX capsule later this week, one that has been there since last year, to close an unexpected extensive mission that started last June.
Wilmore and Williams only expected to be away for a week when they launched on Boeing's first astronaut flight. They reached the brand of nine months earlier this month.
The Boeing Starliner capsule met with so many problems that NASA insisted that it was empty, leaving his test pilots behind to wait for a SpaceX lift.
Wilmore opened the hatch of the space station and then called the bell of the ship while the newcomers drove in one by one and were greeted with hugs and handshakes.
“It was a wonderful day. Great to see our friends coming, “said Williams Mission Control.
The ride of Wilmore and Williams arrived at the end of September with a smaller crew of two and two empty seats reserved for the leg. But more delays resulted when the brand new capsule of their replacements needed extensive battery repairs. An older capsule took its place and pushed their return for a few weeks until mid -March.
If the weather is allowed, the SpaceX capsule with Wilmore, Williams and two other astronauts will not come out of the space station until Wednesday and the coast of Florida will splash.
Until then there will be 11 on board the track laboratory, which represent the US, Russia and Japan.
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