With stuck Boeing Starliner astronauts waiting, SpaceX Crew-10 arrives to KSC
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The return to Earth of Boeing’s Starliner astronauts stuck on the International Space Station inched closer as their replacements arrived to Florida for their relief flight next week.
The quartet assigned to the SpaceX Crew-10 mission arrived to KSC having flown into the former space shuttle landing facility Thursday afternoon. They are slated to climb aboard the Crew Dragon Endurance and launch from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 as early as 7:48 p.m. Wednesday.
NASA astronauts take up two of the four seats with commander Anne McClain and pilot Nichole Ayers. They’re joined by mission specialists Takuya Onishi with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.