SpaceX and NASA scrubbed The planned rocket launch from crew-10 to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday due to a hydraulic problem with one of the ground systems, according to officials who provide a live broadcast of the event.
NASA and SpaceX will have their next opportunity to send the rocket into space when the launch window is opened on Thursday at 7:25 pm
Defense Minister Pete Hegseeth Shared a message of support for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 prior to their launch on Wednesday, which emphasizes the prominent role of the US Army in the mission.
“I just want to take a short moment to say that we pray for you,” said Hegseeth in a video placed on X. “We wish you God Speed, and we look forward to welcome you all at home soon.”
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NASA Astronauten Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stranded in space since June 2024. (NASA)
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 is planned to launch the Kennedy Space Center At 7:48 PM on Wednesday. The SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket will wear a crew of four to the ISS for a six -month residence. The mission is set to herald the long -awaited return home of Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams.
“President Trump said to Elon Musk:” Get the astronauts at home and do it now ” – and they respond,” Hegseeth continued. “And they bring NASA astronauts, (WHO) happen to be retired the American Navy Capt. Butch Wilmore and retired people The American Navy Capt. Suni Williams, at home.”
The American astronauts were stranded at the ISS nine months after arrival in June last year. They only had to stay about a week.
Boeing’s Starliner -Ruimtervaartigen Had transported the pair of astronauts from the earth to the ISS. However, it returned to earth in September. This was after Starliner “Helium leaks” and “Problems with the response scheme of the spacecraft” suffered while mooring 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, both NASA-Astronauts, and mission specialist Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration). (NASA/Bill Stafford/Helen Aase vargas)
“Now, The Ministry of Defense Is also proud of several branches and two active American military officers represented in the mission that starts tonight between NASA and SpaceX. Still, Colonel Anne McClain of the US and the US Air Force, Major Nichole Ayers, “said Hegseeth.” So this is the army, the Air Force and Marine tonight. “
In addition to McClain and Ayers, CREW-10 also contains an astronaut of Japan and one from Russia.
Boeing’s Starliner -Ruimtevaartiger lands back on the earth without a crew
Wednesday’s launch comes afterwards President Donald Trump asked SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to save the stranded astronauts rather than NASA had planned.
Trump repeatedly said that former President Joe Biden “left” them in space “in space”.
Musk told definitively Larry Kudlow from Fox Business Earlier in the week: “We get them back.”
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NASA said there will be a “transfer period” with the SpaceX crew-10 before Wilmore and Williams go back To their home planet. They were able to return to earth in Sunday.
Last week Trump shared a special message for Wilmore and Williams.
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“Elon (Musk) is now preparing a ship to go up and get them,” the president told Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy. “We love you, and we come up to get you, and you shouldn’t have been there that long.”
Aislinn Murphy from Fox Business has contributed to this report.
