Mission SpaceX to bring back astronauts Starliner to the house postponed due to a hydraulic problem
SpaceX postponed a mission Wednesday to bring the next crew to work on the International Space Station (ISS) and start the return of a pair of astronauts to Earth.
The postponement was announced on Wednesday evening before what would have been the scheduled launch time.
There was a problem with the hydraulic system on the launch side. This is a field problem with the launch tower and not a problem with the spacecraft, according to SpaceX.
SpaceX said it was now aiming for a launch on Friday at 7:03 p.m. HE.
The astronauts of Boeing Crew Flight Test Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the front port on the Harmony module of the international space station and the Boeing Starliner space, June 13, 2024.
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Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams has been in space since June 2024 after having made the first test flight from Crewed of Boeing from Boeing. When launched, they were only supposed to be on the ISS for about a week.
However, NASA and Boeing officials decided to send the Starliner not made to Earth in September after several numbers and keep Wilmore and Williams on board until the beginning of 2025, when Crew-10 was ready to be launched on the Dragon spaceship. Wilmore and Williams should return to the Crew-9 capsule.
The pair joined the current crew-9 mission on board the ISS and could not return to Earth until Crew-9 finished its six-month mission and was replaced by the crew-10.
Wilmore and Williams helped the crew to research and other responsibilities. However, NASA officials said the pair used more supplies for the ISS crew.
Crew-10 Mission Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, astronauts from Nasa Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain and Jaxa Takuya Astronaut Onishi comes out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building on the way to start the 39a complex, at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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Steve Stich, head of the NASA commercial crew program program, said NASA teams had spent all summer on Starliner data and estimated that there was too many risks with regard to vehicle propellants.
At a press conference in September, Wilmore said he and Williams did not feel disappointed by nothing during the mission.
“Do you lower? Absolutely,” said Wilmore. “It never came to my mind. This is a good question. I can tell you, I thought a lot about this press conference … and what I meant and transmit.”
“NASA does an excellent job to make a lot of easy things,” he said, adding, “that’s how it happens. Sometimes because we push the edges of the envelope in everything we do.”
If the mission succeeds, we do not know exactly when Wilmore and Williams will return to Earth on Crew-9.
The NASA Spacex Dragon Endeavor spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket, which will transport the NASA crew-10, is seen anchored at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39a as part of its launch preparations at Kennedy Space Center in NASA, in Titusville, Florida, on March 12, 2025.
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The crew consists of two astronauts from NASA, an astronaut from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and a Russian Roscosmos astronaut.
SpaceX will share a live webdiffusion of the mission starting an hour and 20 minutes before takeoff on its website and on its X account. NASA will also be broadcast on its X account.
“During their stay in the orbit laboratory, the crew will carry out new research to prepare human exploration beyond low orbit and to benefit from humanity on earth,” said SpaceX on its website.
The SPACEX contract missions are part of the NASA wider commercial crew program, which is certified to carry out routine missions to and from the ISS.
