New mission, which will allow the returned from ashraws stranded, coupled to the EEI

Spacex’s CREW-10 mission was successfully coupled shortly after midnight from East United States to the International Space Station (EEI) with the aim of relieving four astronauts, including Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, which went to that space laboratory for a week and have been for more than nine months stranded due to the failures of the Boeing ship in which they arrived.

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Williams and Wilmore hugged the newcomers once the US gates were opened, which will have for a short period a total of 11 crew, until next Wednesday when the return to the land of the four relieved is expected.

«Great to see our friends arrive,» said Williams.

The tenth commercial crew of the NASA and the company of Elon Musk automatically docked in the US at 00:04 east time in the US The launch tower.

The Dragon ‘Endurance’ probe coupled the US to the Harmony module of the US. The station was already linked to the Dragon ‘Freedom’ probe, which had transported to the number 9 crew of Spacex.

The CREW-10 transports Commander Anne McClain and the pilot Nichole Ayers, both from NASA; Japanese Takuya Onishi, from the Jaxa agency, and the Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, from Roscosmos.

With his arrival the planning of the long-awaited return of William and Wilmore, who have been in the EEI, as well as the members of the CREW-9, Nick Hague and the cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who have been at the station for about six months, after their arrival in the ‘Freedom’ on the last September 29.

The four plan to return to the Earth in that same Spacex capsule, with a scheduled amering off the Florida coast, presumably not before next Wednesday.

William and Wilmore had arrived in June at the Boeing Starliner that presented failures, but as a precaution they did not return a week as programmed in that ship, which returned to Earth without crew.

The return mission of these two astronauts has been involved in controversy at the political level, after Musk claimed a quick rescue mission and that President Donald Trump accused his predecessor, Joe Biden, of abandoning astronauts without offering evidence.