Sunita Williams likely to leave Space Station on March 19 as NASA, SpaceX plan crew-10 mission

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United States, March 14, 2025: Indian-origin Astronaut Sunita Williams and fellow-astronaut Butch Wilmore are expected to leave the International Space Station by March 19 at the earliest, said NASA.

The American Space agency informed that its SpaceX Crew-10 is now targeting no earlier than 7:03 pm on March 14 as the window for launch of the Transporter-13 mission.

The duo, who had reached the International Space Station (ISS) for an eight-day stay, have been stuck in space for nine months after a trip on Boeing’s faulty Starliner.

According to the reports, the mission will launch four crew members to the International Space Station.

Earlier on Thursday, the mission managers decided to wave off a launch attempt due to high winds and precipitation forecasted in the flight path of Dragon.

The launch teams are also working to address a hydraulic system issue with a ground support clamp arm for the Falcon 9 rocket at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Crew-10 mission will bring a new team of astronauts to the ISS, including Nasa’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese space agency JAXA’s Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos’s Kirill Peskov.

Crew-10 is the 10th crew rotation mission of SpaceX’s human space transportation system and its 11th flight with crew aboard, including the Demo-2 test flight, to the space station through NASA’s Commercial Crew Program.

This will be the 13th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission which previously launched Crew-7, CRS-29, PACE, Transporter-10, EarthCARE, NROL-186, and six Starlink missions.

Following stage separation, Falcon 9 will land on Landing Zone 4 (LZ4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base.