SpaceX’s Crew -10 mission is getting ready to send four astronauts to the International Space Station to bring batch Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back to Earth after they were stuck in space for over 8 months.
It will be launched on Wednesday and will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 5:18 IST. The Dragon spacecraft will carry four astronauts- Anne McClain, Nicole Ayers, Takuya Onishi and Kirill Peskov.
After launch, the spacecraft will separate from Falcon -9 and adjust its course. It will perform a series of burns to align with the ISS before docking. Once it is docked, the hatch will open and the new crew can enter the station.
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stuck in space for over 8 months and NASA expects them to return to Earth around March 19 or 20 aboard a SpaceX vehicle.
Their situation gained a lot of momentum after US President Trump blamed the Biden administration for the enormous delay.
