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NASA Crew-10 Docks With ISS To Trade Places With ‘Stranded’ Astronauts

The’ve arrived. The three astronauts and one cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission docked with the International Space Station just after midnight Sunday. Liftoff went smoothly, at 7:03 p.m. ET on Friday, when a Falcon 9 rocket lifted the Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, to space. 

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov have now arrived at the ISS

Read more: NASA’s ‘Stranded’ Astronauts Days Away From Coming Home

Return of ‘stranded’ astronauts

Crew-10 has a bit more riding on it than a typical crew rotation mission. NASA astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore became long-term ISS residents after riding to the station on a test mission for Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule. The crew capsule encountered technical issues and was sent back to Earth without the astronauts.

Williams and Wilmore’s ISS stay unexpectedly stretched out for more than eight months. Crew-10’s arrival means Willams, Wilmore, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will be able to hand off ISS duties to the newcomers and return to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon sent up in September. That Dragon arrived with two open seats for the Starliner crew’s journey home.

With the Friday launch successful, the Crew-9 members, including the much-delayed Williams and Wilmore, will depart the space station no earlier than Wednesday, March 19, depending on the weather at the splashdown locations off the coast of Florida. 

Both Williams and Wilmore have insisted they don’t feel stranded, though that term has been widely applied to them in news stories and social media.




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