Sunita Williams' return one step closer; Dragon capsule arrives at ISS

 

 

 

California: The mission to bring Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back to Earth from space is one step closer. SpaceX's Dragon capsule to return the two to Earth has docked with the International Space Station (ISS). Four research tourists have arrived at the station aboard the Dragon capsule for the new Crew-10 mission.

The Crew-10 mission was launched on Saturday morning at 4.30 am Indian time on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nicole Ayers, Japanese Space Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov arrived at the International Space Station today as part of the Crew-10 mission. Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will return to Earth after the foursome hand over control of the ISS. The other members of the Crew-9 mission, NASA's Nick Hague and Roscosmos' Alexander Gorbanov, are currently expected to return to Earth on March 19 in the Dragon spacecraft.