SpaceX Rescue Crew Member Wears ‘Alien’ Costume to Greet Stranded Astronauts

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams acquired an out-of-this-world greeting in house!

On Sunday, March 16, the pair — who’ve been stranded in house for 9 months — have been shocked when Crew-9 commander Nick Hague greeted them sporting an alien costume as he docked with the SpaceX crew on the Worldwide Area Station.

In footage shared by the Worldwide Area Station on X, Hague is seen coming into the hatch of the spacecraft sporting an alien face masks. He later floats in direction of a smiling Williams and Wilmore whereas pointing to one thing off-camera earlier than shifting offscreen.

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill Peskov arrived on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the ISS on the SpaceX and NASA’s Crew-10 mission to deliver Wilmore and Williams dwelling, at 12:04 a.m. EDT on Sunday, March 16, NASA confirmed in a press launch. 

The crew’s arrival comes after they took off from NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart in Florida at 7:03 p.m. ET on Friday, March 14.

Photographs taken on Sunday present SpaceX astronauts and crew members hugging Wilmore and Williams whereas deboarding the capsule.

NASA astronaut Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, have been in house since final September and are becoming a member of Wilmore and Williams on their flight again dwelling. 

Over the subsequent few days, NASA stated there might be a “crew handover interval” because the astronauts make preparations to return dwelling safely.

“Following Dragon’s hyperlink as much as the forward-facing port of the station’s Concord module, the crew members aboard Dragon and the house station will start conducting commonplace leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft and the station in preparation for hatch opening scheduled for about 1:45 a.m. on Sunday,” per the discharge. 

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“Crew-10 will be a part of the Expedition 72 crew of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Don Petitt, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, in addition to Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner. The variety of crew aboard the house station will improve to 11 folks earlier than Crew-9 members Hague, Williams, Wilmore, and Gorbunov return to Earth following the crew handover interval.”

The Dragon launch was initially imagined to take off on March 12, however a hydraulic difficulty delayed the flight.

Wilmore and Williams landed on the ISS in June 2024 and supposed to remain in house for not more than 10 days. Nonetheless, following mechanical points with their spacecraft, they have been delayed and the spacecraft was despatched again to Earth with out them weeks later.