NASA has decided to shuffle some Spacex Dragon capsules to launch its CREW-10 mission to the International Space Station as soon as possible.
The agency is now directed on March 12 for the launch of CREW-10, which will take three astronauts and a cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS). The four crew members are scheduled to set up a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket to the orbit of the Low Earth, and their seats in that rocket will be aboard the resistance capsule of the dragon crew, NASA announced Tuesday (February 11). His arrival at the ISS will also offer relief to crew astronauts-9 currently on board, which were originally scheduled to return in February.
Two members of CREW-9 especially, NASA Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, will probably see the arrival of the crew-10 as a welcome milestone on their long space flight trip. A successful crew-10 coupling would mean that the duo can begin to conclude its stay of almost ten months in the ISS. The couple arrived at the Orbital Laboratory aboard the Starliner Boeing spacecraft in June last year, three months before their current teammates did it, and faced a longer excursion than expected because their Starliner capsule They had to return to earth without the earth due to technical problems.
It was supposed that the flight crew test (CFT) with Williams and Wilmore would only last about 10 days, but the corruptor did not work during the ISS approach and coupling procedures of the crafts led NASA to extend the stay stay of astronauts while the problems were investigated. In August, the agency officially decided Starliner to return to Earth however because those complications were not completely resolved; Therefore, the Mission plans of Starliner astronauts had to change.
As such, the crew dragon that was scheduled to arrive shortly after Starliner’s departure experienced a change in the manifesto. Only two of the four astronauts scheduled to fly aboard CREW-9 would launch to the space station, leaving two open seats for Williams and Wilmore on the return trip. CREW-9 launched on September 28, with NASA astronaut NASA Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. Its incorporation to the station meant that crew astronaut 9 After the relief of the arrival -10 crew.
It seemed, for a while, that relief was continuously kicking increasingly for Williams and Wilmore. In December, NASA announced a delay in the launch of CREW-10 to “not before the end of March”. That delay, the agency revealed, was to leave time for Spacex to end the manufacture of a new dragon spacecraft that is being built for the mission.
Since then, the media coverage of the situation of Wilmore and Williams has been widespread, often labeling the couple as “stranded astronauts.” This protest has coincided with the recent change in the administration of the White House, and it soon became evident that it was even escaping from the Earth was not enough to free Williams and Wilmore to become part of the online fodder that often accompanies the Heated political careers.
Just a week after its inauguration, President Donald Trump Posted in xDeclating that he instructed his close advisor, the CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, “to ‘go to look for the 2 brave astronauts that the Biden administration has virtually abandoned in space.” As CEO of Spacex, Musk would have been aware that his company’s dragon and Russia’s soybean capsule were ready and available as lifeboats for the entire crew of the station in case of emergency. He would also have known about NASA’s plans to return astronauts home safely. Even so, he doubled and aware that it was “terrible for the Biden administration to leave them there for so long.”
At that time, NASA said the agency and Spacex were “working quickly to safely return the agency Spacex Crew-9 astronauts … as soon as practical, while preparing for the launch of CREW- 10 to complete a delivery between expeditions.
Now, CREW-10 goes to space before expected.
Instead of waiting for Spacex to finish a new dragon capsule for CREW-10, NASA decided to launch the mission in a spacecraft tested by flight, in this case, Crew Dragon Endurance. The decision, NASA said, at the launch of Tuesday, was taken when the new spacecraft faced additional processing time to finish the interior of the vehicle and the approval rating controls for operation. The resistance also flew the Missions CREW-3, CREW-5 and CREW-7 of Spacex, so it is expected that preparing the vehicle for the flight take less time than the completion of the new dragon.
Between now and the new launch date of the crew-10 of March 12, the resistance must undergo the renovation, stacking of the trunk, loading of propellants and transport by hangar 39a to launch Spacex at the Kennedy Space Center of the Kennedy of the NASA, in Florida, for reinforcement integration.
“The human space flight is full of unexpected challenges,” said NASA’s commercial crew program, Steve Stitch in the statement. “We greatly benefit from the commercial efforts of Spacex and its proactive approach to have another spacecraft ready for us to evaluate and use in support of CREW-10”.
On board the resistance for the launch of the crew-10 it will be the NASA’s astronaut and mission commander, Anne McClain, the astronaut and pilot Nichole Ayers, Jaxa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and specialist in Mission Takuya Onishi and Cosmonaut Rosmos Kirill Peskov. After a typical transfer period of a few days, while the ISS residents help the new crew acclimatize, CREW-9 will address their own crew dragon, and prepare for the game.
Williams, Wilmore, Hague and Gorbunov will fly back to Earth at some point towards the end of March. When they do, the weather allows it, they are scheduled to splash in one of the various possible places off the coast of Florida.
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