The 2 astronauts of NASA, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who’re caught on the Worldwide Area Station, bought their area mission prolonged once more because the US area company on Tuesday introduced a contemporary delay of their homecoming.
The 2 astronauts took off on June 5 on Boeing’s first astronaut flight to the Worldwide Area Station for round every week, nonetheless, their mission expanded from eight days to eight months as NASA introduced that it was sending Boeing’s Starliner capsule, plagued with issues, again in September.
NASA had chipped in Elon Musk owned SpaceX’s Crew-9 Dragon capsule to carry the astronaut duo again and it was scheduled to reach in February 2025.
NASA’s SpaceX #Crew10 now could be focusing on no sooner than late March 2025 to launch 4 crew members to @Space_Station.
The change offers NASA and SpaceX time to finish processing on a brand new Dragon spacecraft for the mission, set to reach in early January: https://t.co/3y1zvsyGMr pic.twitter.com/wJxfV89SAR
— NASA Business Crew (@Commercial_Crew) December 17, 2024
Nonetheless, NASA introduced on Tuesday that Crew-10, which is ready to alleviate Crew-9 together with Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, would launch no sooner than March 2025.
In a weblog put up, NASA mentioned “The change offers NASA and SpaceX groups time to finish processing on a brand new Dragon spacecraft for the mission.”
Why The Delay?
In response to Related Press, a recent set of crew must be launched earlier than the caught pair of astronauts get relieved and the launch of the subsequent mission has been bumped for one more month.
Explaining the delay, NASA’s blogpost learn “The change offers NASA and SpaceX groups time to finish processing on a brand new Dragon spacecraft for the mission.”
“Fabrication, meeting, testing, and closing integration of a brand new spacecraft is a painstaking endeavour that requires nice consideration to element,” mentioned NASA’s Business Crew Programme Supervisor Steve Stich.
In the meantime, issues of deteriorating well being have grown over Sunita Williams’ extended keep in area with pictures launched in latest instances suggesting a weight reduction.
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