The group changing the astronauts who have been stranded for 9 months at the Global House Station (ISS) have entered the orbiting lab.
A SpaceX tablet delivered 4 astronauts on Sunday on a undertaking to permit Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who’ve been at the ISS since June 2024 to go back house.
About 29 hours after the Falcon 9 rocket introduced from NASA’s Kennedy House Middle in Florida, the Dragon tablet docked with the ISS at 4.04am UK time. Within are the Staff-10 astronauts.
Symbol: The alternative group have been welcomed on board the Global House Station (ISS). Pic: NASA
They’re NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, who’re each army pilots, in conjunction with Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov, each former airline pilots. They’ll spend the following six months on the house station.
Their undertaking will permit 4 contributors of Staff-9, which contains Mr Wilmore and Ms Williams, to go back to Earth.
Symbol: The dragon tablet used to be manoeuvred in opposition to ISS prior to it docked. Pic: NASA Symbol: The Dragon tablet safely docked with the Global House Station. Pic: NASA Symbol: The view from the ISS because the Dragon tablet edged nearer and docked. Pic: NASA
It took a number of mins for Dragon to securely dock on the ISS, in what’s an automatic procedure, however there used to be about 1 hour and 45 mins of extra protection assessments prior to the hatch might be opened.
Mr Wilmore and Ms Williams at the beginning deliberate to visit house for simply 8 days however were given caught at the station after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft began experiencing issues.
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