Astronauts launch to the space station after sidelined by Boeing’s troubled Starliner
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is the Four US-Japanese crew. In March, they will take their place as the filling of NASA’s two stuck astronauts of their colleagues who started their space station in March.
SpaceX capsules should reach the orbit laboratory this weekend and remain at least six months.
Zena Cardman, a biologist and polar explorer to the market last year, was taken with another NASA crew to make room for Starliner’s star -testing pilots.
Botlu Starliner demo forced the Butch Wilmore and Artificial Williams to move to SpaceX to return from the space station more than nine months after leaving a week -long trip. To ensure safe feedback “meant to step aside,” he said before the launch of the Cardman.
“Every astronaut wants to be in space. None of us want to stay on the ground, but it’s not about me.” He said. Even after the launch, “things may change at the last minute, so I will consider myself very lucky when the cover is opened”. NASA’s Mike Fincke – Cardman’s co -pilot – Wilmore and Williams’ backup in Starliner, and made these three still certified. Kimiya Yui, former military officers with Fincke and Japan’s previous space flight experience, was training for Starliner’s second astronaut mission. While Starliner was grounded until 2026, NASA switched two on the last SpaceX flight. Completing the crew is Russia’s Oleg Platonov. The former fighter pilot was withdrawn from the Russian Soyuz flight series a few years ago because of an unexplained health problem that he said he had been solved since then.
NASA’s new acting manager Sean Duffy, a new acting manager Sean Duffy for the first launch attempt on Thursday, met with Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Ministerov, an invited guest. The two discussed future cooperation, then left the town after forcing the last -minute delay of thick clouds.
Duffy, NASA interview, “What we learn in these tasks that will take us to the moon and then to Mars Mars, so I think NASA should be the direction.” He said. “There is a critical real estate on the Moon. We want to claim this real estate for ourselves and our partners.”
To save money in the light of strict budgets, NASA wants to increase the space station, which is already a movement by Russia’s space agency, from six months to eight months. SpaceX is close to confirmation of dragon capsules for longer flights, which means that the newly launched crew may be there until April.
NASA also thinks of three astronauts that are released in SpaceX instead of the typical four of the crew to reduce costs.
As for Starliner, NASA turns to the launch with the next cargo before another crew flys.
Engineers are still investigating the repulsive faults and helium leaks that they cost Starliner after Liftoff. NASA is running out of time to leave the old space station until 2030. An air leak on the Russian side of the station was not dissolved after years of patches.
Platonov said at the beginning of this month about the localized leak, “I’m not at least worried.”
