A SpaceX capsule delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station early on Sunday to allow a pair of stuck NASA astronauts to return to Earth.
SpaceX Dragon docks with Space Station
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NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be able to return home after nine months on a mission that was only supposed to last a week following a launch on Boeing’s first astronaut flight that faced issues, prompting NASA to bring the Starliner back empty.
The Crew-10 astronauts’ SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked to the station at 12:04 a.m. on Sunday, about 29 hours after launching at 7:03 p.m. on Friday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
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The four new arrivals representing the U.S., Japan and Russia will spend the next few days learning about the station from Wilmore and Williams. The four — NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov — are scheduled to stay on the station for roughly six months.
Later this week, Wilmore and Williams will enter their own SpaceX capsule that has been up there since last year to close out a mission that began last June.
