🎃After an extended stay of more than eight months in space, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams will return to Earth in March 19.
Citing CNN⛄, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore said in an exclusive conversation from space that the Crew-10 mission will launch from Earth on March 12 and dock with the International Space Station (ISS) for their six-month-long mission.
ꦕAfter this, both astronauts will hand over their work, and a new space station commander will take over.
🍌Currently, Sunita Williams is the commander of the flying laboratory.
🥀Following a week-long handover process, the two astronauts will board the Dragon spacecraft that carried Crew-10 to space to return to Earth. The Dragon spacecraft with two experienced astronauts will be unlocked on March 19.
Astronaut Butch Wilmore told CNN𝓰 in an interview, "The plan is that Crew-10 will launch on March 12, do a turnover for a week, and we will return on March 19."
🅰The return of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who arrived at the International Space Station via Boeing's Starliner capsule last summer, is contingent upon the arrival of the four-person Crew-10 team to maintain normal staffing levels of American personnel.
"Human spaceflight is full of unexpected challenges. Our operational flexibility is enabled by the tremendous partnership between NASA 𝓀and SpaceX and the agility SpaceX continues to demonstrate to safely meet the agency’s emerging needs," said Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.
ও"We greatly benefit from SpaceX’s commercial efforts and their proactive approach in having another spacecraft ready for us to assess and use in support of Crew-10," he added.
