NASA and Spacex successfully launched a long -awaited crew mission to bring back American astronaut Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmore from the international space station, where he had been stranded for nine months.
Falcon 9 rocket carrying a crew dragon capsule took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 pm local time, with a four -member crew left for ISS. It includes the astronaut astronaut NASA’s Anne McClen and Nicole Aars, Jaxa astronaut Takuya Onishi and Rososomos astronaut Kiril Peskov. They are part of the crew-10 mission, which will replace Williams, Willmore and two others.
The spacecraft is expected to join ISS on 15 March, after which the crew will spend a few days to adjust for a few days before handling the operation from Crew-9, which will not leave before March 19.
The mission, originally scheduled for March 12, was delayed due to the last -minute problem with the ground system of the rocket. NASA later confirmed that SpaceX had cured the problem by removing the air pocket from the hydraulic clamp arm, and with a 95 percent favorable season, the launch was resolved for March 15.
