The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft has transported a four -member crew to the ISS to replace astronauts stuck at the station for more than nine months.
SpaceX spacecraft transported a four -member crew on Sunday to the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts came to replace their colleagues from the US National Aviation and Space Authority (NASA), Barry “Butch” Wilmora and Sunityu Williams, who were supposed to spend only a week in the ISS, but eventually stuck for more than nine months, TASR reports according to AP report.
Crew Dragon joined the ISS less than a day after the Falcon 9 missed from Kennedy’s NASA space center in Florida. Four new astronauts were happy to see Wilmor and Williams, writes AP. They now spend a few more days to the ISS to learn how it works at the station.
A pair of astronauts will return to a space capsule
Subsequently, the pair will be released by their own capsule from SpaceX to flight home. It will end the mission that it started last June. It was the first test piloted by the flight of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which, however, has experienced several technical problems after joining the ISS.
Finally, NASA insisted that this ship returned to the ground empty and let the astronauts wait for a spare ship from SpaceX. It arrived in September with a two -man crew and two vacancies, but needed extensive repair of the battery and the return of astronauts to the ground was postponed again.
SPACEX with Wilmor, Williams and two other astronauts will go on Wednesday first, but it also depends on the weather. Until then, it will be at the ISS 11 astronauts, from the USA, Russia and Japan.
