On Friday, SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission launched to help bring back the two astronauts stranded at the International Space Station. Astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to just be at the ISS for eight days, but they’ve been stuck there since June 2024.
A SpaceX Dragon capsule, riding atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets, is carrying the four Crew-10 astronauts – NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov – to orbit.
Crew-10 is go for launch! pic.twitter.com/xyQzIJ7Abf
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They are going to replace SpaceX’s Crew-9, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksanr Gorbunov, who arrived in space in late September 2024. After the Crew-10 astronauts arrive at the ISS which is expected Saturday night at…