SpaceX Capsule Arrives To Pick Up Stuck NASA Astronauts: What Happens Next? [View all]

Source: MSN

A day after takeoff, a Space X crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday to deliver replacements for two of NASA's stuck astronauts.

NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been "stuck in space" for nine months. They were launched at the International Space Station (ISS) on a test flight of Starliner, a spacecraft built under NASA's contract with Boeing.

Wilmore and Williams launched on what they originally thought was going to be an eight-day mission, but NASA officials determined that it was unsafe for the astronauts to return in the Starliner due to propulsion problems. NASA then had to find an alternative way to bring the astronauts home.

The Boeing Starliner capsule had encountered multiple problems, so much so that NASA has ultimately insisted it comes back empty, leaving the test pilots, Wilmore and Williams waiting for a SpaceX lift.

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