Hegseth shares a message to Spacex Rescue Mission Crew: ‘I wish you Godspeed’

Spacex and Nasa Furra The launch of CREW-10 planned rockets to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday due to a hydraulic problem with one of the land systems, according to officials who offer a live broadcast of the event.

NASA and SPACEX will have their next opportunity to send the rocket to space when the launch window opens Thursday at 7:25 pm

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth He shared a message of support for NASA Spacex-10 crew before launching on Wednesday, highlighting the leading role of the US army on the mission.

“I just want to take a brief moment to say that we are praying for you,” Hegseth said in a video posted in X. “We wish you Godspeed and we hope to welcome everyone at home soon.”

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NASA’s spacex-10 crew was scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center At 7:48 pm on Wednesday.

NASA officials said the launch of Wednesday night was scrubbing due to a hydraulic problem with a clamp arm in the launch tower.

The officials have not mentioned when the next launch attempt will take place, although there are alternative times on Thursday and Friday, including the next opening on Thursday at 7:25 pm

Meanwhile, the crew will remain in the capsule while waiting for the “exit” team to eliminate them.

Once clear, the Spacex Falcon 9 rocket will take a crew of four to the ISS for a six -month residence. The mission is scheduled for the beginning of Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams.

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“President Trump told Elon Musk: ‘He takes astronauts home and do it now,’ and are responding,” Hegseth continued. “And they are bringing NASA’s astronauts, (who) are also retired to the US Navy captain.

American astronauts have been stranded in the ISS for nine months after arriving there in June last year. They were supposed to only stay for about a week.

Boeing Starliner Starliner He had transported the astronaut couple from Earth to the ISS. However, he returned to the unmanned land in September. This occurred after Starliner suffered “helium leaks” and “Problems with the reaction control of the spacecraft” while accumulating with the ISS.

“Now, The Department of Defense He is also proud to have multiple branches and two US military service officers represented in the mission that will begin tonight between NASA and Spacex. However, American army colonel Anne McClain and the major of the United States Air Force, Nichole Ayers, “said Hegseth.” So this is the Army, the Air Force and the Navy tonight. “

In addition to McClain and Ayers, CREW-10 also includes an astronaut of Japan and one from Russia.

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The planned launch comes later President Donald Trump He asked the CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, who rescued the astronauts stranded before what NASA had planned.

Trump has repeatedly said that former President Joe Biden “abandoned them” in space.

Musk was definitively counted Larry Kudlow by Fox Business At the beginning of the week: “We are going to recover them.”

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NASA said there will be a “delivery period” with the Spacex-10 crew before Wilmore and Williams return backwards To his native planet. They could return to Earth as early as Sunday.

NASA’s astronaut says that the Starliner team will probably change the exercise routine during the stroke of ISS extended

Last week, Trump shared a special message for Wilmore and Williams.

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“Elon (musizcle) is preparing a ship to get and get it,” the president told the Fox News White correspondent Peter Doucy. “We love you, and let’s look for you, and you shouldn’t have been there so much.”

Aislinn Murphy of Fox Business contributed to this report.