SpaceX and NASA scrubbed the deliberate rocket launch of Crew-10 to the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) on Wednesday as a consequence of a hydraulic difficulty with one of many floor techniques, based on officers giving a stay broadcast of the occasion.
NASA and SpaceX will get their subsequent alternative to ship the rocket into area when the launch window opens on Thursday at 7:25 p.m.
Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth shared a message of help for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 forward of their launch on Wednesday, highlighting the U.S. army’s distinguished function within the mission.
“I just want to take a brief moment to say we are praying for you,” Hegseth stated in a video posted to X. “We wish you Godspeed, and we look forward to welcoming you all home soon.”
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NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stranded in area since June 2024. (NASA)
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 is slated to launch from the Kennedy Area Heart at 7:48 p.m. on Wednesday. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry a crew of 4 to the ISS for a six-month residency. The mission is ready to usher within the much-anticipated homecoming of Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams.
“President Trump stated to Elon Musk, ‘get the astronauts home and do it now’ – and they’re responding,” Hegseth continued. “And they’re bringing NASA astronauts, [who] also happen to be retired U.S. Navy Capt. Butch Wilmore and retired U.S. Navy Capt. Suni Williams, home.”
The American astronauts have been stranded on the ISS for nine months after arriving there in June of last year. They were only supposed to stay for about a week.
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft had transported the pair of astronauts from Earth to the ISS. Nevertheless, it returned to Earth unmanned in September. This got here after Starliner suffered “helium leaks” and “issues with the spacecraft reaction control thrusters” whereas docking with the ISS.
The official portrait of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members with Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov, left, of Roscosmos, Pilot Nichole Ayers and Commander Anne McClain, each NASA astronauts, and Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA). (NASA/Invoice Stafford/Helen Arase Vargas)
“Now, the Department of Defense is also proud to have multiple branches and two active-duty U.S. military officers represented in the mission that’s kicking off tonight between NASA and SpaceX. Yet, U.S. Army Colonel Anne McClain and U.S. Air Force Major Nichole Ayers,” Hegseth stated. “So this is Army, Air Force and Navy tonight.”
Along with McClain and Ayers, Crew-10 additionally consists of an astronaut from Japan and one from Russia.
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Wednesday’s launch comes after President Donald Trump requested SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to rescue the stranded astronauts ahead of NASA had deliberate.
Trump has repeatedly stated former President Joe Biden “abandoned” them in area.
Musk definitively advised FOX Enterprise’ Larry Kudlow earlier within the week: “We’re gonna get ’em back.”
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NASA stated there shall be a “handover period” with the SpaceX Crew-10 earlier than Wilmore and Williams head again to their house planet. They might return to Earth as early as Sunday.
Final week, Trump shared a particular message for Wilmore and Williams.
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“Elon [Musk] is right now preparing a ship to go up and get them,” the president advised Fox Information senior White Home correspondent Peter Doocy. “We love you, and we’re coming up to get you, and you shouldn’t have been up there so long.”
FOX Enterprise’ Aislinn Murphy contributed to this report.
