FLORIDA.- SpaceX sent a rescue mission to two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station, sending a reduced crew to bring them back home, a goal it hopes to achieve next year.
The company launched the capsule into orbit to bring back a test pilot whose ship returned empty to Earth earlier this month for safety reasons.
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The operation to recover Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams is in the hands of NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbunov.
Because at NASA Because the space station crew rotates every six months, this new flight with the two empty seats reserved for Wilmore and Williams will not return until late February.
Officials claim there is no way to bring them back beforehand SpaceX without disturbing other scheduled missions.
When they returned, they had already spent eight months in space, whereas they were expected to only be gone a week when they signed up for Boeing's first astronaut flight launching in June.