Musk’s Spacecraft Reaches Space Station to Bring Sunita Williams Back

Florida, 16 March – (www.deccanlive.com): Around 11:15 AM, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nicole Aunapu Mann, Japan’s Takuya Onishi, and Russia’s Kirill Peskov reached the space station.

Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, sent its Dragon spacecraft, which reached the International Space Station (ISS) after 28 hours. On March 16, at 9:40 AM (Indian time), the spacecraft docked with the ISS, and at 11:05 AM, the hatch opened. This spacecraft will bring back Indian-origin American astronaut Sunita Williams and astronaut Butch Wilmore, who have been stuck on the space station for 9 months.

The Crew-10 team, with four members, took off on Saturday at around 4:30 AM (Indian time) on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The launch happened from the Kennedy Space Center. Now that Crew-10 has reached the space station, Crew-9 members Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov, along with Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, will return to Earth in the Dragon spacecraft.

These four astronauts are expected to return to Earth on March 19.