Look live while the NASA astronauts start to the space station

About 48 hours after scrubbing a first attempt to start on Friday, four astronauts will climb back on a SpaceX rocket to start the international space station.

The NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, the Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and the Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will take off at 7:03 p.m. ET from NASAS Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The flight, a mission known as crew-10, is part of the regular rotation of NASA's crew members to and from the space station. But it has attracted more attention than usual because it means that the NASA astronauts finally bring their long-awaited flight back to earth.

Williams and Wilmore have been in the spotlight for months due to the unusual circumstances of their time. The couple was expected to remain only for a week at the space station as part of the first test flight from Boeing Starliner spaceship in June, but the problems with the vehicle forced them to stay on the orbid -bearing outpost.

The new crew will be Williams, Wilmore and two other NASA astronaut Nick Hague and the Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov-Retades, which complete an approximately six-month stint at the space station.

The crew-10 astronauts run on the orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, and NASA will be broadcast the event live from 3 p.m. ET live in the NASA TV.

Assuming that the start will take place as planned, it is expected that the members of the arriving crew members arrive at the space station on Saturday. After that, according to NASA, the outgoing crew was able to leave on Wednesday, March 19.

The attempt to start this week added the drama of the situation. It was deported on Wednesday with a little more than 40 minutes in the countdown clock because there was a problem with one of the floor systems on the start pad. The four astronauts were already strapped into the kite capsule when the decision was made.

The crew 10 mission consists of a mixture of veterans and first time. Both McClain and Onishi will visit the space station for the second time, while Ayers and Peskov will take their first space flight. All four astronauts have a common background as pilots.

Your arrival on the orbit starts a handover period, which usually takes a few days for the new crew members to be trained and are up to date on scientific experiments, maintenance work and other projects at the train station.

After that, Williams, Wilmore, Hague and Gorbunov will travel home in the SpaceX Dragon capsule, which Haag and Gorbunov flew to the space station in September. Two seats were deliberately kept empty so that their colleagues could later drive back to earth.

The Starliner spaceship, which Williams and Wilmore flew into space, met several editions in June when the surrounding laboratory set it up. After months of investigations and tests, NASA decided to bring the Starliner trade back to earth with no one on board and instead let the astronaut -Duo wait for a journey for a SpaceX vehicle.

Her unexpectedly long stay in orbit with low earth has recently become a political topic. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, and President Donald Trump, both have made unfounded claims that the bidding administration held the flight back to earth for political reasons. Trump recently said that he had commissioned Muschus to bring the astronauts home. However, NASA has planned to use a SpaceX vehicle for its return trip since it was announced August.