Boeing Crew Flight Test
SpaceX docks at ISS to take stranded astronauts home next year
The SpaceX crew that will ferry back in February two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station docked with the orbiting laboratory on Sunday, a live stream of the mission showed.
The Falcon 9 rocket took off at 1:17 pm (1717 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday, with the Crew-9 mission aboard a Dragon spacecraft making contact with the ISS at 5:30 pm Sunday.
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Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore were initially supposed to stay on the ISS for only one week, but they have now been in space for nearly three months.
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The two astronauts of the Starliner remain on the International Space Station, as their return trip to Earth, scheduled for today (June 26), will not take place.