With favorable climate forecast at Kennedy Area Heart’s Launch Advanced 39A, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission was scheduled to launch at 7:49PM ET tonight, earlier than NASA and SpaceX stated they’d stand down from a launch try. The subsequent launch alternative is March thirteenth at 7:26PM ET.
As soon as its there, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will lastly get a secure trip again house to Earth after being stranded aboard the ISS for 9 months. Their Boeing Starliner mission that launched to the ISS on June fifth, 2024, was speculated to be simply an eight-day mission, however points like thruster failures and helium leaks made it unsafe to return to Earth utilizing Starliner. The astronauts will now return on the Crew-9 capsule, tentatively scheduled for March sixteenth, 2025, together with two astronauts from the mission that launched to the ISS on September twenty eighth, 2024
The Crew-10 mission consists of NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, in addition to JAXA mission specialist Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov. The crew will spend a number of months aboard the ISS conducting experiments, analysis, and performing spacewalks.
Comply with alongside right here for all the updates on the Crew-10 launch, in addition to the return flight of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
