Obnews Digital Desk. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station this Sunday, carrying two Crew-9 astronauts, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who had been stranded on the mission since June, waiting to return to Earth. Is going. Along with this, a CNN report said that the space capsule, which is part of the Crew-9 mission, was launched on Saturday, September 28, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying NASA's Nick Hague and Russian astronaut Alexander. Gorbunov was on board.
The entire mission is designated a rescue mission for Williams and Wilmore, who were initially expected to spend a little more than a week in space. They were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) due to safety concerns of their Boeing Starliner spacecraft and will now return with Hague and Gorbunov in February next year. Hague and Gorbunov boarded the ISS shortly after their capsule docked at 9:30 a.m. GMT, according to NASA.
Williams and Wilmore – two former military test pilots – were the first crew to fly on the troubled Starliner, what was supposed to be an eight-day mission turned into an eight-month ordeal. The SpaceX Crew-9 mission was to carry four astronauts to the ISS until two vacant seats were opened for two stranded astronauts.
The Starliner capsule suffered a thruster failure and a helium leak, after which NASA decided it was not safe for astronauts to return to it, and it returned to Earth empty earlier this month.
