The pair of astronauts retained nine months ago will finally be rescued after a problem on the launch platform led the CREW-10 to reschedule the flight to this Friday.
Spacex sent the team that will rescue the two astronauts held at the International Space Station (EEI) after the programmed flight was postponed due to release problems.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams now await the arrival of the ship, scheduled for late Saturday night.
The pair will be escorted by astronauts who flew on a Spacex rescue mission in September, along with two empty places reserved for Wilmore and Williams on the return trip.
The latest crew, which is part of NASA’s Kennedy space center towards the orbit, includes Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, both military pilots, and Takuya Onishi, from Japan, and Russia’s Kirill Peskov, both former planes of airplanes.
It will spend the next six months at the space station, considered the normal period, after releasing Wilmore and Williams.
As test riders from Boeing’s new Starliner capsule, Wilmore and Williams hoped to be absent only a week or more when they were released on June 5.
A series of helium escapes and driving faults has damaged his trip to the space station, starting months of investigation from NASA and Boeing about the best way to proceed.
