A four -member crew will take a fire this week to the brilliant shine to the international space station. SpaceX will bring the crew 10 mission to the market with an assist from a Falcon 9 rocket on a dragon spacot ship. This is part of the Commercial Crew program of NASA, which has dependent on SpaceX to ferry astronauts to the ISS and the ISS.
When does SpaceX crew-10 start?
NASA is on the way on Wednesday, March 12, at 4:48 p.m. PT. The rocket starts from the start complex 39a in the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The start complex has a famous story that goes back to the era of the Apollo Moon program of the 1960s.
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How to see the NASA astronauts start
NASA is known for its detailed reporting on human space flight missions. Hard core space fans can adjust to a live video feed with the start complex 39a about 6 hours before getting in Kennedy Space Center’s Newsroom Feed on YouTube.
The main start -up report begins at 12:45 p.m. PT on the free NASA Plus Streaming service. NASA Plus is online, available via the NASA app and on YouTube.
As soon as the video livestream is complete, NASA changes to an audio update stream until Crew-10 approaches the ISS on March 13th to dock rendezvous and docking. The arrival reporting is planned on Thursday for 1:15 a.m. PT on NASA Plus.
Crew-10 will meet a few milestones on the trip, including the docking at 3 a.m. and the opening at 4:45 a.m. astronauts will then be welcomed to a welcome ceremony in which the newcomers are welcomed by the current ISS crew. It is usually a funny, hug.
Meet crew-10
Crew-10 consists of four people who represent three different countries. Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers are NASA astronauts. This will be McClain’s second NASA world space flight and Ayers first.
Takuya Onishi is at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as Jaxa. This is his second ISS mission. Kirill Peskov is cosmonaut with the Russia’s Roscosmos agency. It is his first visit to the station.
The astronauts will have a complete selection of activities in front of them, including material flaming tests and physiological and psychological studies to understand changes in the human body in space missions.
Return of “stranded” astronauts
Crew-10 has a little more than a typical occupation rotation mission. NASA Astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore He became infamous of long-term ISS after driving to the ward at a test mission for Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule. The crew capsule encountered technical problems and was sent back to earth without the astronauts.
The ISS of Williams and Wilmore remains unexpectedly stretched out over eight months. The arrival of crew-10 means Willams, Wilmore, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov can transfer ISS duties to the newcomers and return to earth on one earth SpaceX Dragon sent in September. This dragon arrived with two open seats for the journey home of the Starliner Crew.
Both astronauts insisted that they do not feel stranded, although this term was largely applied to them in news and social media. You expect it Leave the station on March 16. But first crew-10 has to arrive on time.
