SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station at 1:35am Eastern time, paving the way for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.
Crew 10 Mission, an international team of four astronauts from the US, Japan and Russia, joined Williams and Wilmore early on Sunday. The crew will move on to duties before Williams and Wilmore return to Earth with two colleagues.
It was a long journey for the pair who first arrived at the International Space Station in June last year, about what constituted a test flight of a new Boeing Star Liner spacecraft over a few days. Instead, after malfunctioning in the capsule, NASA scientists chose to leave the astronauts at the space station and bring the Starliner back into the sky.
Williams and Wilmore have lived at the space station for nine months, waiting for new crews to ease their duties and ease their duties. The capsule trip was scheduled to be released in February, but was delayed until this month.
Nine months is not an unusually long stay in space. Many astronauts on the space station have lived there for several months, some have lived there for over a year. Williams and Wilmore used this time to conduct the experiment.
The pair's unexpected long orbits intrigued by the fascination of space nerds, enthusiasts and members of the masses being fascinated by their fate. Williams and Wilmore accepted their situation, broadcast regularly from the station and spoke lovingly about layovers in space.
“It really makes me want to enjoy every single time I'm here,” Williams told The Daily last week.
After the crew has been handover missions, the pair will begin their journey to Earth, probably on Wednesday morning.
