A SpaceX Dragon capsule has docked at the International Space Station as NASA organises a trip back to Earth for two astronauts who have been stranted on the station since June. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov depart for mission to International Space Station in September 2024. It carried NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, with two NASA astronauts cut from the mission to make room for Williams and Wilmore. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore make pizza aboard the International Space Station in September 2024. NASA rotates ISS crew roughly every six months, with the current Crew Dragon mission scheduled to return with Williams and Wilmore aboard in late February. The capsule launched from the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Florida, with two vacant seats for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. Engineers were unable to resolve the issues to their satisfaction and decided Wilmore and Williams should return to Earth aboard a SpaceX flight in February 2025. Following the arrival of Hague and Gorbunov, four astronauts who have been living aboard the ISS since March are scheduled to leave aboard their own SpaceX capsule. The two astronauts travelled into space aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule in what was meant to be its validation flight after a troubled development history. The Dragon capsule was scheduled to launch last Thursday, but was delayed due to Hurricane Helene, which caused destruction throughout the south-eastern United States. The problematic Starliner capsule returned to Earth without a crew last month.
This Cyber News was published on www.silicon.co.uk. Publication date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 07:43:05 +0000