SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket is scheduled to explode Wednesday night to transport four astronauts from the Dragon 10 crew to the International Space Station (ISS).
Crew-10 is scheduled to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center at 7:48pm on EST. In Florida, the launch was live streamed on X.
The flight will transport four crew members to the space station. They are: NASA astronauts Anne McLain and Nicole Ayers, Japanese astronauts onishi, and Russian astronaut Kiril Peskov.
McLean, a West Point alumnus and Iraq War veteran, served as a flight engineer on the ISS from 2018 to 2019 before becoming commander of the Crew 10 mission.
The first trip to the decorated veteran's ISS was travaged by an estranged wife mistakenly accusing her of hacking her bank account from space following a nasty custody battle.
Ayers, a US Air Force major who flew over 200 combat times in Iraq and Syria, serves as a pilot, and the Crew 10 mission is set to be his first trip to space.
After the explosion, astronauts are expected to arrive at the ISS by Thursday to ease members of the crew nine mission and two American astronauts who have been stuck at the station for eight months.
After a few leaks of Boeing's Starliner capsules during their June trip, Sniwilliams and Butchwillmore are set to return to one of the SpaceX capsules docked along with fellow NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Cosmoner Alexander Golbunov.
The trip ended the eight-month saga that astronauts endured after an indefinite extension of the original 10 days in space due to a Boeing malfunction, and took on the company's reputation last year.
The exact date of their return is not immediately clear, but it could soon be March 16th, NASA said.
If Wednesday's Crew 10 launch was cancelled, NASA set up a backup launch window at 7:26pm on Thursday.
