NASA Astronauts, JAXA, And Roscomos Arrive At The Space Station, Ready To Do Scientific Research

Dragon spacecraft in space (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA The Dragon plane, which delivered four astronauts for the Crew-10 mission, finally arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft belonging to SpaceX arrived on Sunday, March 16 at 11.04 WIB.

The four astronauts who were part of the mission were NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Astronauts Takuya Onishi, and Rosmoscos Kirill Peskov Cosmonauts. The four of them have entered the ISS.

According to NASA's explanation, the Dragon aircraft is already connected to the port at the front of the module called Harmony. That way, all Crew-10 members can get out of the plane and prepare research materials and other scientific tasks.

As usual, whenever a plane arrives at the ISS, all astronauts at the station will carry out a number of checks. This needs to be done so that crews from previous missions can go home without risk of damage or accidents.

" Crew members at Dragon and the space station will begin to check standard leaks and exert pressure between spacecraft and stations in preparation for the hatch opening," NASA said, quoted from its official website.

With the arrival of Crew-10 members, the Expedition 72 crew is now growing. Previously, Expedition 72 only consisted of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Don Petitt, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore. There are also Cosmonaut Roscosmos Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner.

In the future, there will be eleven astronauts on the ISS. However, if Crew-9 members and NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned home, the number of members will decrease to seven.