After nine months at the international space station, two American astronauts are finally preparing to return to earth. A mission operated by SpaceX, which is operated by NASA, is to take off from Cap Canaveral this Friday to secure the next generation and enable its return.
Upcoming start. A mission lived in NASA has to fly to the international space station on Friday to enable the return of the two American astronauts to be in space for nine months. Operated by the multi -millionaire SpaceX Company Elon MuschusThe start must be located at 7:03 p.m. (00:03 in France) from Cap Canaveral, Florida to UNITED STATES. A payout window is planned for Saturday.
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The start was initially planned on Wednesday and was canceled at the last minute due to a problem that was recognized on a floor support system. Since then, an inspection has been carried out and an “air pocket” was probably behind the evacuated problem, NASA said on Thursday.
This mission should enable Butch Wilmore and Sununi Williams to Butch Wilmore, two American astronauts who have been in the International Space Station (ISS) since last June to return to Earth. You should respond on board this return a few days after the arrival of the new crew on board a SpaceX ship and not on the Boeing Starliner device, which she had sent and met with errors.
Space X on the controls
These two space veterans were initially left for an eight -day mission and looked at the stay due to the problems recognized on the device’s drive system. These mistakes prompted NASA to decide in the summer, to empty them and to bring the two astronauts back with the SpaceX Company from the multimillionaire Elon Musk.
A journey that recently took a political turn with the return to the power of President Donald Trump, in which the latter accused his predecessor Joe Biden to voluntarily abandoned the two unhappy.
Elon Musk, now a close advisor to the Republican, recently assured that he could have saved her a long time ago without determining how even an astronaut who accused him of lying. At the end of September at the end of September, his SpaceX company had sent a crew dragon ship with only one American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut on board to the ISS -instead of the four passengers planned at the beginning -to leave space for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
Far from the recording of Frank Rubio
The new crew that leaves for the ISS on Friday must pass it on and allow them to go. It consists of two astronauts from NASA, Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, a Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and a Russian cosmonaut, Kirill Peskov.
Despite the war war in Ukraine, the United States and Russia have continued their cooperation in space in recent years, with Russian cosmonauts over SpaceX and American astronauts sent by Russian Silouz rockets during the rotation missions of the IS’s crew. This new mission is written in this context. The participants are responsible for the implementation of scientific and technological experiences in space laboratory.
After a few days, Butch Wilmore and Sununi Williams are supposed to return to Earth next to the American Nick Hague and the Russian Alexandre Gorbounov from Crew-9. NASA mentioned a return on Sunday at a start on Wednesday and has not yet given a new date. If your stay has arisen in space, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have not yet exceeded the record of American astronaut Frank Rubio. The latter had lived on board the ISS in 2023 for 371 days instead of six months that were originally planned because a coolant leak on board the Russian spacecraft was intended for its return.