Last night, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, along with Crew-9 members Aleksandr Gorbunov and Nick Hague, left the ISS in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft now that the Crew-10 mission has arrived to relieve them. NASA will resume coverage of their return mission this afternoon, as they are expected to splash down off the coast of Florida at about 5:57PM ET, ending a voyage that started last June.
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on schedule in its second attempt Friday night, sending the Crew-10 mission on its way to the International Space Station.
Commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, pilot, along with mission specialists Takuya Onishi and Kirill Peskov are back in the Dragon spacecraft, ahead of the mission’s launch, which is scheduled for 7:03PM ET.
According to NASA, once the craft takes off, it will be about 28.5 hours before it meets up with the ISS.
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Now that SpaceX ground teams have “successfully flushed a suspected pocket of trapped air” in the ground support hydraulics system used for the clamp arm supporting the Falcon 9 rocket, there will be another attempt to launch the Crew-10 mission to the ISS tonight, after the first one on Wednesday was scrubbed.
It’s scheduled for 7:03PM ET on Friday, March 14th, and once it reaches the space station, that will mean it’s time for Crew-9 and the stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts to make their way back to Earth, which could happen as soon as March 19th.
With less than an hour to go on the countdown, NASA announced tonight’s launch attempt to send a capsule to the ISS on a Falcon 9 rocket is off. There is a backup lunch opportunity already scheduled for tomorrow night, on March 13th at 7:26PM ET, but it hasn’t been confirmed yet.
