The SpaceX-10 crew counts to start at the international space station on Friday afternoon. (Credit: NASA)
Spacex Crew-10 embarked on Friday space to bring two NASA astronauts back to house which have been stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) since June 6.
The crew of four was preparing in the “costume room” in the middle of photos of the Apollo crew, before going to the launch Several teslas Adorned with “LIF10FF” license plates – an ode to the mission number.
Each astronaut received a medical check before being informed by SpaceX and NASA. Later, they participated in various traditions, including a card game to eliminate unlucky.
Friday, the astronauts of SpaceX Crew-10 are preparing in the costume room. (NASA / Fox News)
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The launch to save Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams was initially planned for Wednesday, but a hydraulic field problem interrupted the mission a few minutes before takeoff.
The NASA livesters said that there were a 95% chance of favorable weather conditions on Friday afternoon, the same probability announced by SpaceX on Wednesday before the previous delay.
The banners seemed optimistic about the probability of imminent launch, citing only minor concerns concerning the cumulus clouds.
The astronauts of SpaceX Crew-10 play cards before launch Friday. (NASA / Fox News)
SpaceX launched its Dragon and Falcon 9 Rocket spacecraft just after 19 hours of the US Space Agency Kennedy space centerIn collaboration with NASA.
Commander Anne McClain, the driver Nichole Ayers, the specialist in the Takuya Onishi mission, and the mission specialist Kirill Peskov will replace the crew of SpaceX, the NASA astronaut, Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksanr Gorbuno, who arrived in space at the end of September.
The astronauts of SpaceX Crew-10 are preparing to get started on Friday. (NASA / Fox News)
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They also aim to save Wilmore and Williams – which should only be at the ISS for about a week in June before a number was emerged with Boeing Starliner Spacecrat, who returned to Earthless Earth in September.
Hague, Wilmore and Williams have done more than 900 hours of research during their stay at ISS, NASA announced at the end of last week.
Astronauts from NASA Suni Williams, on the left, and Butch Wilmore. (Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo / AFP via Getty Images / Getty Images)
In August, NASA said the overtime that failed astronauts would spend at the station had allowed it and Boeing “Continue to collect test data on Starliner during his next return flight, without also accepting more risks than necessary for his crew.”
The Starliner had “helium leaks” and “problems with the control of the reaction propellants of the spaceships” during the reception with the ISS in June, according to the previous reports.
The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by the 56 crew members of a Soyuz spacecraft after defusing on October 4, 2018. (NASA / Roscosmos / Handout via Reuters, File / Reuters)
A “transfer period” will take place with the crew-10 before Wilmore, Williams, Hague and Gorbunov leave the ISS, reported NASA.
They will return to Earth, in another Dragon Spacex spacecraft, on Sunday, according to officials.
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In space, CREW-10 “will carry out research, technological demonstrations and maintenance activities aboard the microgravity laboratory,” said NASA.
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The launch of Friday will be the tenth of Dragon Operational mission of human space flights.
The spaceship almost 27 feet high was built with space up to seven passengers.
Aislinn Murphy from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
