It won't happen yet. The two astronauts who were supposed to be at the International Space Station for only a week when they took off last June and are still there, will have to delay their return home further due to the malfunction that prevented the launch of Crew-10 from Florida, as reported by Efe.
This launch, the tenth commercial mission of NASA and SpaceX to the International Space Station, was suspended late on Wednesday due to a hydraulic problem with a securing arm, but a window remains open to attempt it on Thursday or Friday.
Crew-10, composed of Commander Anne McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers, both from NASA; Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi from JAXA, and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov from Roscosmos, will travel aboard a Dragon capsule.
This new crew will relieve four colleagues, including Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who went to the space laboratory for a week and have been delayed for nearly nine months due to defects in the Boeing spacecraft they arrived in.
Both astronauts, who flew on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that experienced malfunctions, will now return in a SpaceX Dragon capsule along with two other members of Crew-9, Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
The launch window for the tenth mission remains set for Thursday or Friday from the Kennedy Space Center.