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SpaceX tablet starts rescue project to go back stranded astronauts

SpaceX tablet starts rescue project to go back stranded astronauts
September 29, 2024



SpaceX has introduced its project to carry again two astronauts stranded at the Global Area Station (ISS) since June.The Dragon tablet, which has two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday.The pair’s project on the area station had best been anticipated to closing about 8 days however after a fault used to be discovered at the new Boeing Starliner it returned to Earth empty as a precaution.Nasa astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov are flying with recent provides for Butch and Suni and be expecting to carry them house in February.The Dragon release have been scheduled for Thursday however used to be behind schedule as a result of Typhoon Helene, which has left a path of destruction via Florida, north via Georgia and into Tennessee and the Carolinas.SpaceX, based via billionaire Elon Musk, has been ferrying crews to and from the ISS each six months.The Dragon is predicted to dock with the ISS on Sunday at round 21:30 GMT.Beneath a freelance between Nasa and Roscosmos, the Russian federal area company, three-seat Russian Soyuz spacecraft elevate one Nasa astronaut on each and every flight to the ISS and a cosmonaut flies on each and every four-seat Dragon.

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