The American astronauts, who have been stranding in space for more than nine months, have a big step closer to their return to Earth. A space capsule with a new crew for the International Space Station ISS reached the outpost of humanity on Sunday evening.
According to the US Room Trip Authority NASA at 5.04 hours of Central European period (CET), the spacecraft sucked “Crew Dragon” of Tech-Billionaire SpaceX from Tech billionaire Elon Musk has moored almost 420 kilometers above the Atlantic Ocean on the space station. Live photos of NASA showed the maneuver and also how the incoming space travelers and the crew of the space station embraced to greet themselves.
The “Crew 10” must replace the “Crew 9”
With the “Crew Dragon” the four -member so -called “crew 10”, consisting of American astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, as well as the Japanese Astronaut Takuya Onishi and the Russian Kosmonaut Kirill Peskow. The start was originally planned for last Wednesday, but it had to be postponed on the ground due to a hydraulic problem. The problem can be solved later.
The “Crew 10” is to replace the “Crew 9” in the international space station-the American astronaut Suni Williams, her colleagues Barry Wilmore and Nick Hague and the Russian Kosmonauts Alexander Gorbunow. After a few days together on board the ISS, the “crew 9” would return to the earth from Wednesday, while the “crew 10” should stay in space until autumn. Bad weather can still postpone the return.
Breakdown series about the spaceship “Starliner”
Hague and Gorbunow have been on board Williams and Wilmore since the end of September since the end of September. They had flown to the ISS with a “Starliner” spacecraft. You should only stay there for about a week. Due to various technical problems on the “Starliner”, NASA decided to bring the spaceship back to Earth.
The “Starliner” was developed by Boeing on behalf of NASA to transport astronauts to the ISS as an alternative to the “Crew Dragon” from SpaceX. However, there were various setbacks and years of delays in the project. Management of test flights have been postponed several times due to various technical problems for the spaceship and the rocket.
It was not until June Williams and Wilmore flew on board the spaceship to the ISS – and then for months. The 58-year-old Williams and the 61-year-old Wilmore were already in space twice.
Source: Krone
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