SpaceX capsule docks to rescue astronauts stranded on space station

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A capsule made by Elon Musk’s Spacex at the International Space Station early Sunday, providing a new crew to enable American astronauts Williams and Butch Wilmore to return to Earth after a nine -month mission that was supposed to last eight days.

The dragon capsule was awarded at 12.04 am EST, about 29 hours after its launch from the Kennedy Space Center of NASA in Florida, carrying four new crew members from the United States, Japan and Russia.

After astronauts entered the International Space Station, Williams told Mission Control that it is great to see our friends praying. “

William and Wilmore, along with NASA astronaut Nick The Hague and Russian astronauts Alexander Gorbonov, are expected to return to the house on Wednesday after a delivery period. Until their return, there will be 11 crew at the space station.

According to NASA, Williams and other three crew members conducted 900 hours of research and more than 150 scientific experiments during their mission, including watering the garden and exercises to maintain astronauts in space.

Williams, who described her stretching as a “unique experience”, said that she missed the weather changes and walking her dogs. “When I take them on foot, sometimes it rains, sometimes it is a storm, and sometimes it is hot. She said in an interview with him recently in NASA:” I look forward to feeling all this weather on the ground. “

Hague and Gorbunov arrived at ISS in September on Crew Dragon Freedom Craft in Spacex, which will be used to bring Williams and Wilmmore to the home.

The original plan for Boeing CST-100 Starliner carried Williams and Wilmmore to ISS in June to return them home after their short mission.

But NASA decided in August that Starliner could not be used due to weights and helium leaks on the external trip.

The decision was a humiliating setback for Boeing, which raised questions about the company’s space ambitions at a time when the process of basic commercial aircraft was already under intense organizational pressure after an explosion developed in the air in the door board last year, with a maximum of 737 as a maximum.

Starliner was supposed to prove the company’s ability to work in the new world of space purchases where the private sector, instead of NASA, owned missiles and devices and sells goods and crew services to the US Space Agency.

But after the serial problems and delays left behind Spacex for five years, analysts say Starliner has become a symbol of what happened in Boeing Space Companies.

Boeing denied that American astronauts were “cut off” and insisted that the late return was not a failure.