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Date and landing specifications revealed

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA are said to return to Earth at the end of March. The two astronauts have been stranded in the past eight months due to technical difficulties and the rescheduling of the mission in space.

Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore will be replaced by Crew 10 at the International Space Station (ISS) on March 12th. You will return a week later after the necessary handover.

Astronauts that are part of the crew 10 are – Anne McClain, Commander, and Nichole Ayers, Pilot, together with the mission specialists Jaxa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos Cosmonauut Kirill Peskov.

Before the start of the schedule, the astronauts “spend the last two weeks before the start to prevent exposure to diseases before they meet with existing crew members on board the space station,” said NASA in a statement.

Crew 10 will go on board on March 12 in a kite room screaming on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39a in Nasa Kennedy.

The space agency based in the USA added: “The crew is scheduled to start on Wednesday, March 12, at 7:48 p.m. Edt on board a dragon spaceship on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the start complex 39a at NASA Kennedy.”

The return date of Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore also depends on the weather conditions.

They flew to the Boeing Starliner of the International Space Station on June 5. However, technical problems, including helium leaks and diarrhea, meant that the starliner was unsure about their return.

SpaceX developed his crew Dragon Capsule with around 3 billion US dollars of financial crew programs from NASA.

“Human Spaceflight is full of unexpected challenges. Our surgical flexibility is made possible by the enormous partnership between NASA and SpaceX and the Agility SpaceX in order to meet the aspiring needs of the agency,” said Steve Stich, manager of the NASA program for trade crew.