Four astronauts will fly on the ISS on board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at the top of Falcon 9.
SpaceX The Crew-10 is going to start space and bring home two NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) since June 6.
The four-crew focused on the “dress-up” in the middle of the Apollo crew before going to Launchpad More teslas Decorated with license plates “LIF10FF” – ode to mission number.
Each astronaut received medical check before being informed SpaceX and NASA. Later they participate in various traditions, including a card game that eliminates any bad luck.
Astronauts SpaceX Crew-10 are preparing on Friday in a suit. (NASA / FOX News)
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The opening of Barry's “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams was originally planned on Wednesday, but the hydraulic ground problem stopped the mission just minutes before the take -off.
NASA Livestreamers said there was a 95% chance of favorable weather conditions on Friday afternoon, and SpaceX announced the same probability on Wednesday before the previous delay.
The streamers looked optimistic about the likelihood of imminent triggering and quoted only minor concerns about the Cumulus Clouds.
Astronauts SpaceX Crew-10 play cards before starting on Friday. (NASA / FOX News)
SpaceX will start its Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 missile just after Friday from the American Space Agency Kennedy Space CentersIn cooperation with NASA.
Commander Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers pilot, Takuya onishi specialist and mission specialist Kirill Peskov will replace the SpaceX-9 crew, Astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksanr Gorbuno, who arrived until the end of September.
Astronauts SpaceX Crew-10 are preparing to start ISS on Friday. (NASA / FOX News)
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The goal also to save Wilmore and Williams – who were planned only on ISS about a week in June before the problem appeared Boeing's spacecraft Starliner, who returned to the ground in September.
Hague, Wilmore and Williams have completed more than 900 hours of research on ISS during their time, NASA announced at the end of last week.
Astronauts NASA Suni Williams, left and Butch Wilmore. (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP through Getty Images / Getty Images)
In August, NASA said that the next time stuck by astronauts would spend on the station allowed her and Boeing “Continue to collect the test data on Starliner during your upcoming flight home, and at the same time not to take a greater risk than necessary for its crew.”
Starliner had “Helia leaks” and “Problems control problems”, while according to previous reports in June in June.
International Space Station (ISS) photographed crew members Expedition 56 from Soyuz spacecraft after Undocking, 4 October 2018. (NASA/ROSCOSMOS/Flyer through Reuters, File/Reuters)
The “handover period” will take place with Crew-10 than Wilmore, Williams, Hague and Gorbunov will leave ISS, NASA reported.
According to officials, they will return to the ground in another SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as soon as Sunday.
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While in space, the Crew-10 will “carry out research, demonstration of technology and maintenance activities aboard the laboratory for microgravity,” NASA said.
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Dragon's Tenth will be on Friday's launch Operating mission of human space flight.
Almost 27 feet high spacecraft was built with space for up to seven passengers.
Aislinn Murphy Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
