Los Angeles: NASA and SpaceX are targeting Wednesday to launch a new crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS), according to NASA.
The new mission, codenamed Crew-10, will send NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov to ISS.
Liftoff is targeted for 7:48 p.m. Wednesday Eastern Time, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, according to NASA. The spacecraft is expected to dock with ISS on Thursday.
The agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will return to Earth following the arrival of Crew-10 to the orbital laboratory, according to NASA.
Williams and Wilmore have been stuck in space since last June due to technical problems of Boeing’s Starliner which took them to ISS.
