DRAGON TO THE RESCUE: SpaceX Launches Dragon Spacecraft for 5-Month Expedition That Will Bring back the Stranded Astronauts From Troubled Boeing Starliner Mission (VIDEO)
The months-long space saga of astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams has had another chapter, as their ride is on its way to the International Space Station to, in time, finally bring them back to Earth.
SpaceX launched today (28) the rescue mission for the two stuck test pilots at the International Space Station, sending up a downsized crew to finally bring them home next year.
Wilmore and Williams flew into space in the trouble-plagued Boeing Starliner, a spacecraft that returned to Earth empty earlier this month because of safety concerns.
It is now up to NASA’s Nick Hague and Russia’s Alexander Gorbunov to retrieve the pair.
Associated Press reported:
“Because NASA rotates space station crews approximately every six months,
