Four astronauts from NASA’s Crew-10 Mission left for the International Space Station on board a SpaceX Dragon Capsule on Friday, on the way to a Splashdown for the American West Coast on Saturday morning after a five-month rotation mission in the Orbiting Lab.
Us astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, the commander of the crew-10, boarded the Gumdrop-shaped Dragon Capsule on Friday afternoon, along with the Japanese astronaut Takuya Oneishi and Russian Kosmonaut Kirill Peskov site back to the 17.5-hour-hours.
The crew of four people launched on March 14 at the ISS in a routine mission that replaced the crew of the crew-9, including NASA Astronauten Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the Astronaut couple left at the station by Boeing’s Starliner Capsule.
Five months after the conclusion of the Starliner mission, Wilmore withdrew from NASA this week after a 25-year career in which he flew four different spacecraft and registered a total of 464 days in space.
Wilmore was an important technical adviser to the Starliner program Van Boeing together with Williams, who stays at the agency in his Astronaut Corps.
The four astronauts in the crew-10 capsule are planned for a splashdown in the Pacific at 11:33 am et (1533 GMT) Saturday.
NASA said they are returning to the earth with “important and time-sensitive research” carried out in the micrsweering environment of the ISS during the 146-day mission. The astronauts had more than 200 science experiments on their task list.
