Welcome, #Crew9! After floating through the Dragon’s hatch, our new arrivals join the crew aboard the @Space_Station. They’ll spend five months conducting @ISS_Research and maintenance on the orbiting lab. pic.twitter.com/DJX7f9vxlg
— NASA (@NASA) September 29, 2024
Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 03:38pm on 30 Sep 2024,Monday Science
SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station (ISS) on September 29, 2024, to rescue astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, stranded since June due to Boeing's Starliner thruster failures. The rescue mission, manned by NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbunov, will not return to Earth until February 2025, leaving Williams and Wilmore in space for eight months. NASA's Deputy Program Manager confirmed the astronauts monitored the launch from the ISS, maintaining a positive outlook on their extended stay in orbit.
