NASA Set to Launch New Crew to ISS Today—But Don’t Buy Trump’s ‘Rescue’ Hype

NASA’s upcoming launch of its Crew-10 mission is the final step to returning the Starliner astronauts home after nine months of being stranded with no ride back to Earth. The mission will finally relieve the two astronauts from their prolonged time in space, but it’s not the kind of rescue mission Donald Trump is making it out to be. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission will deliver a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS), allowing NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to return to Earth along with the two members of Crew-9, who reached the orbital lab in September of last year. Crew-10 is set for launch on Wednesday at 7:48 p.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft expected to dock at the space station on Thursday around 6 a.m. ET. The Dragon spacecraft will carry NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) mission specialist Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov to ... Read full article.