NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Friday launched a much-awaited Crew-10 Mission to bring back US astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station (ISS), where they have been stranded for nine months.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Friday launched a much-awaited Crew-10 Mission to bring back US astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station (ISS), where they have been stranded for nine months. Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon spacecraft on the Crew-10 mission lifted off at 7:03 ET on Friday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Four astronauts boarded SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to replace Williams and Wilmore at the ISS.. These four astronauts are – NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.
Visuals Of The Launch:
Liftoff of Crew-10! pic.twitter.com/OOLMFQgA52
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Notably, Crew-10 is the 10th crew rotation mission under SpaceX’s human space transportation system and the 11th flight with a crew aboard to the ISS station, including the Demo-2 test flight. The mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
