CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Simply over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived on the Worldwide House Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two caught astronauts.
The 4 newcomers — representing the U.S., Japan and Russia — will spend the subsequent few days studying the station’s ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Then the 2 will strap into their very own SpaceX capsule later this week, one which has been up there since final yr, to shut out an unexpectedly prolonged mission that started final June.
Wilmore and Williams anticipated to be gone only a week once they launched on Boeing’s first astronaut flight. They hit the nine-month mark earlier this month.
The Boeing Starliner capsule encountered so many issues that NASA insisted it come again empty, leaving its check pilots behind to attend for a SpaceX carry.
Wilmore swung open the area station’s hatch after which rang the ship’s bell as the brand new arrivals floated in one after the other and have been greeted with hugs and handshakes.
“Great to see our friends arrive,” Williams advised Mission Management.
Climate allowing, the SpaceX capsule carrying Wilmore, Williams and two different astronauts will undock from the area station no sooner than Wednesday and splash down off the coast of Florida.
