Friday? Perhaps? A crew of four was set to go to the International Space Station on Wednesday, but NASA and SpaceX scrubbed the planned launch attempt from the agency’s crew-10 mission due to a problem with the hydraulic system for a soil support commission for Falcon 9 Rocket, the Space Agency reported. Then, Thursday, NASA announced that expected high wind and rain meant that Friday was the earliest that the mission could continue.
SpaceX had planned to launch the crew-10 mission on a dragon room vessel with an assist from a Falcon 9 rocket. This is part of NASA’s commercial crew that depends on SpaceX to ferry astronauts to and from ISS.
What happened to SpaceX Crew-10 launch?
NASA had planned the spacecraft Liftoff for 19:48 on a Wednesday from Launch Complex 39a at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch complex has a great story that goes back to the era of the Apollo Moon program in the 1960s.
However, the hydraulic system question means that NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov had to leave dragon space. Plans to try again Thursday were scrapped because of the weather forecast and now we are watching Friday.
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Friday launch stiming: How to look
NASA reports that the next available launch option is not earlier than 1 p.m. 19:03 A Friday, March 14 from Launch Complex 39A, pending a review of the question that stopped the launch. Launching cover begins at 1 p.m. 15 at NASA Plus.
Should this launch happen on Friday, the craft will dock with ISS at. 23:30 Saturday.
Return by ‘Stranded’ astronauts
The Crew-10 has a little more riding on it than a typical herd rotation mission. NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore was notorious notorious with long-term ISS residents after driving to the station on a test mission for Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule. The herd capsule encountered technical problems and was sent back to Earth without the astronauts.
Williams and Wilmore’s ISS remain unexpectedly stretched out for over eight months. Crew-10’s arrival agents Willams, Wilmore, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will be able to hand out ISS obligations to the new ones and return to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon sent up in September. This dragon arrived with two open seats to the Starliner crew journey home.
If the launch of Friday happens on time, the crew would, including the very delayed Williams and Wilmore, leave the space station earlier than Wednesday, March 19, waiting for weather at the splashdown locations off Florida’s coast.
Both astronauts have insisted that they do not feel stranded, though this term has been widely applied to them in news stories and social media. But first, crew-10 has to arrive.