Four astronauts hope that Friday will be the day they will go to the International Space Station.
They were all ready to go on Wednesday after placing them on their spaces and climbed SpaceX spacecraft over the Falcon 9 missile at the Kennedy Space Center in NASA in Florida. But with less than 45 minutes remaining the countdown, Spacex canceled the launch. The task control units were unable to solve a hydraulic problem with the clamp arm that carries the missile before launching it.
The weather along the launch track appeared on Thursday, so Friday is the next opportunity to get out of the ground.
The Friday trip is a routine rotation of the crew at the space station, but it is receiving additional attention because it will finally allow to return to the Earth from Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts whose short visit to the space station last June to more than nine months (at least two days after the airline on Wednesday).
Below is another information about the task, which is called Crew-10 because it is the tenth task by Crew Ferrying to and from the space station.
When is the launch and how can I see it?
The four astronauts – two NASA, one from Japan and one from Russia – are scheduled to be launched at 7:03 pm East time.
NASA broadcasts launch coverage Starting at 3 pm, which you can see in the player above. Astronomers wore their SPACEX flights on board the dragon capsule, pending the beginning of their flight.
Expectations require a chance of more than 95 percent of favorable weather.
There is an opportunity to launch backup on Saturday at 6:41 pm, but the weather will not be promising. It will be a storm with a 50 percent chance only for favorable conditions.
Who is going to space on a 10 crew?
Ann McLean from NASA is the commander of the 10th crew, and Nicole Aires of NASA is the pilot. The other two crew members are Takuya Onishi from Jaxa, Japanese Space Agency, Kirill Peskov from Roscosmos, Russian Space Agency.
This will be the first distance of the lady for Mrs. Airez, Mr. Peskov, the second lady of Mrs. Malikin and Mr. Ounishi.
Will Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore be saved after they were cut off in orbit?
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The spacecraft that will return the Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been drawn at the space station since late September and could have returned to Earth at any time.
Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor launched to the space station in June last year to test a test in Starlener, a astronaut capsule built under NASA by Boeing. Because of the payment problems, NASA officials decided that Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor will not return to Earth in Starlener. In early September, the spacecraft did not remove from the space station, entered the atmosphere and landed in New Mexico without any problems.
As when an airline is scrambling to restore the passenger book after canceling a flight, NASA was forced to find seats on a trip to Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor.
The next space crew was Crew-9, which was raised two weeks after Starliner left the space station without anyone on board. Space pioneers who were appointed on the trip were manufactured, leaving two seats in the Dragon Crew Crew Crew capsule for Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor on the return trip.
Thus, the Crew-9 astronauts can be repeated at any time after that, but that would have left the space station suffering from a lack of employees, affecting scientific experiments, operations and maintenance.
NASA and Spacex could have accelerated the Crew-10 mission to launch it earlier, but NASA officials decided that it is better for Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor to join the space station crew and maintain the scheduled schedule of crew 10.
When will Williams and Wilmmore return to Earth?
Once Crew-10 arrives at the space station, preparations for the departure of Crew-9 will begin at approximately 11:30 pm on Saturday.
Space pioneers will overlap at Crew-9 and Crew-10 for a few days at the space station. About four days after the launch of the Crew-10, Mrs. Williams and Mr. Wilmor-alongside Nick The Hague from NASA and Alexander Gorbonov, will climb the astronauts that arrived with a 9-on the space of the spacecraft and the house.
Their stay can be extended again if there is a bad weather in the possible Splashdown sites off the coast of Florida.
What did the astronauts say about their extended stay?
In an interview last month, Michael Barbaro asked, “The Daily”, astronauts, “So, if not stuck, how do you describe this scenario that you find in it?”
“This is a great question,” said Mr. Willmur. “I would like to say it’s work. It’s a great pleasure. It was fun. He was sometimes trying, but they were stranded?
This was the third journey to the space of Mrs. Williams, 59, and Mr. Willmor, 62, and they realize that it may be the last. “We are heading home,” said Ms. Williams. “This makes you really want to enjoy everything from your time you have.”
Michael Barbaro The reports contributed.