Updates
Updates:
- Crew-10 to swap out astronauts stuck on space station
- Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been on ISS for nine months
- SpaceX sets faster pace for NASA pre-launch check process
- Wilmore and Williams could return to Earth on Wednesday
After the Crew-10 astronauts’ ISS arrival on Saturday at 11:30 p.m. ET, Wilmore and Williams are scheduled to depart on Wednesday as early as 4 a.m. ET (0800 GMT), along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. Hague and Gorbunov flew to the ISS in September on a Crew Dragon craft with two empty seats for Wilmore and Williams.
Original Story
Crew-10 has launched. They are on their way to pick up the stranded astronauts who have been stuck on the space station for nine months when they were supposed to be there for eight days. They were stuck there because Joe Biden wouldn’t let SpaceX pick them up after Boeing failed.
Crew-10 is go for launch! pic.twitter.com/xyQzIJ7Abf
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2025
Liftoff of Crew-10! pic.twitter.com/OOLMFQgA52
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2025
Falcon 9’s first stage booster has landed at Landing Zone 1 pic.twitter.com/OptB0Fv1kD
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2025
Crew-10 on-orbit pic.twitter.com/PlHtPi4Dzh
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 14, 2025
To the SpaceX/NASA Crew-10. We are praying for you. We wish you Godspeed, and we look forward to welcoming you all home soon.
pic.twitter.com/V1SUBbcM0m— Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (@SecDef) March 12, 2025
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