A staff of four is set to head to the International Space Station on Wednesday, but NASA and Spacex Scrubbed is the planned attempt of launching the agency's crew-10 mission due to a hydraulic system issue for a ground support clamp arm for the Falcon 9 rocket, Reported by Space Agency. Then, on Thursday, NASA announced That -Forecast high air and rain that means Friday is the first that the mission can continue. Like the early afternoon of Friday, the crew seated and located inside the Spacex Dragon Spacecraft, waiting for the launch.
Spacex plans to launch the crew-10 mission on a dragon spacecraft with help from a Falcon 9 rocket. This is part of NASA's commercial crew program, which relies on Spacex to ferry astronauts to and from ISS.
Why was the launch of the Spacex Crew-10 delayed?
NASA plans to lift the spacecraft for 7:48 pm et Wednesday from the launch of the 39A complex at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Launch Complex has a storied history since the Apollo Moon Program of the 1960s.
However, the issue of the hydraulic system means NASA's astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov need to exit the Dragon Spacecraft. Plans to try again Thursday are scrape due to weather forecasts, and move on Friday.
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Friday of Launching Time: How to Watch
NASA reported that the next available launch opportunity was not earlier than 7:03 pm et Friday, March 14 from the launch of the 39A complex, waiting for an issue review of the stopping the launch. The scope of launch began at 3pm In the plus.
Should this launch happen at the time the boat will be locked with the ISS at 11:30 pm on Saturday.
Returning 'stranded' astronauts
The crew-10 has a little ride here than a standard crew rotation mission. In Astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore Infamously became the long -term resident of the ISS after boarding a station on a trial mission for Boeing's starliner crew capsule. The crew capsule encountered technical issues and sent back to Earth without astronauts.
Williams and Wilmore's ISS stay unexpectedly stretched for more than eight months. Crew-10 arrival means Winds, Wilmore, in Astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov can give ISS roles to newcomers and return to Earth to A Spacex Dragon was sent in September. Dragon arrived with two open seats for traveling to the starliner crew.
If the launch of Friday occurs on time, members of the Crew-9, including excessively delayed Williams and Wilmore, will leave the space station earlier than Wednesday, March 19, waiting for the time to splashdown locations on the beach of Florida.
Both astronauts insist that they do not feel stranded, even though that term is widely applied to them in news and social media stories. But first, the crew-10 must come.
