Key Takeaways
- NASA and SpaceX are targeting Wednesday to launch a new crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
- The Crew-10 mission includes NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.
- The Crew-10 mission is to send a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) and will include a return trip for the Crew-9 mission.
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 SpaceX Crew-9 mission will return to Earth following the arrival of Crew-10 to the orbital laboratory, according to NASA. The Crew-9 mission has been stuck in space since last June due to technical problems with Boeing’s Starliner.
Williams and Wilmore have been stuck in space since last June due to technical problems of Boeing’s Starliner which took them to ISS.
