A crew of four will be on their way to the International Space Station in a glory of glory this week. SpaceX launches the crew-10 mission on a dragon space 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.
When does SpaceX Crew-10 launch?
NASA is targeted at Liftoff to 16:48 pt on Wednesday, March 12. The rocket starts 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.
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How to see NASA Astronaut’s launch
NASA is known for its detailed coverage of human aerospace missions. Hard-Core-Rumfans can adjust to a Live VideoDe by launch complex 39A approx. 6 hours before Liftoff through Kennedy Space Center’s news room feed on YouTube.
Main launch coverage starts at. 12.45 PT on the free NASA Plus Streaming Service. NASA Plus is available online through the NASA app and on YouTube.
When the video livestream is wrapped, NASA switches to an Audio-Kun update current until the Crew-10 approaches ISS for Rendezvous and Docking on March 13. Arrival coverage is scheduled for 1:15 AM PT Thursday at NASA Plus.
Crew-10 hits a few milestones along the journey, including docking at. 3 and Hatch opening at. 04.45 Amsonauts will then engage in a welcome ceremony where the newcomers are greeted by the current ISS crew. It is typically a fun, hugging affair.
Meet Crew-10
Crew-10 consists of four people representing three different countries. Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers are NASA astronauts. This will be McClain’s second NASA rum and Ayers’s first.
Takuya Onishi is at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as Jaxa. This is his second ISS mission. Kirill Peskov is a cosmonaut with Russia’s Roscosmos Agency. It is his first visit to the station.
The astronauts will have a full slate of activities in front of them, including material flammability tests and physiological and psychological studies intended to understand changes in the human body during space missions.
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.
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. They expect to leave the station on March 16. But first, the crew-10 has to arrive on time.