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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts disconnected carrying NASA's SpaceX Crew-9, Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, to the International Space Station from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station successful Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., September 28, 2024. (REUTERS)
A SpaceX Crew Dragon abstraction capsule, which is owed to bring location stuck astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams adjacent year, arrived astatine the International Space Station (ISS) connected Sunday, according to NASA and SpaceX.
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov boarded the ISS soon aft the Dragon capsule docked astatine the presumption astatine 2130 GMT, NASA said successful a station connected X.
The SpaceX Crew-9 ngo was expected to transport 4 astronauts to the ISS until 2 bare seats had to beryllium opened up for Wilmore and Williams aft the Boeing Starliner capsule they arrived connected successful June was deemed unfit to instrumentality them to Earth.
The 2 erstwhile subject trial pilots person been stuck connected the ISS since past aft the Starliner capsule suffered thruster failures and helium leaks. NASA decided it wasn’t harmless for the astronauts to instrumentality connected Starliner, which was sent backmost to Earth bare earlier this month.
Wilmore and Williams, who were the archetypal unit to alert connected the troubled Starliner, are present owed to instrumentality location with Hague and Gorbunov connected Crew Dragon successful February adjacent year, arsenic what was expected to beryllium an 8-day ngo has turned into an 8-month ordeal.
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