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Rocket blasts off to deliver stranded US astronauts house from the ISS in the end

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A protracted-awaited mission to return stranded US astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from the Worldwide Area Station has been launched by Nasa and SpaceX.

The pair have been resulting from spend eight days on the ISS in June, however technical issues with the experimental spacecraft that took them there have left them caught on the orbital laboratory for 9 months.

On Friday night time, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Nasa’s Kennedy Area Middle in Florida, carrying 4 astronauts who will substitute Williams and Wilmore. The brand new crew have been scheduled to reach early on Sunday at about 3.30am GMT, and Williams and Wilmore – together with Nasa astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov – are anticipated to return to Earth on Wednesday.

The mission grew to become entangled in controversy after President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk, who can be SpaceX’s CEO, claimed with out proof that former president Joe Biden had deserted Williams and Wilmore on the station for political causes. The 2 astronauts rejected this accusation.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on mission to switch two caught Nasa astronauts – video report

They arrived on the ISS in June 2024 on a Starliner spacecraft constructed by Boeing, an aerospace rival to SpaceX. Nasa deliberate to return the 2 astronauts to Earth on the craft till issues have been discovered with a few of its thrusters, which might have performed a vital position in slowing down the spacecraft earlier than re-entry into the Earth’s ambiance.

Leaks of helium from the craft’s propulsion system have been additionally found, and Nasa selected to not threat utilizing Starliner to take Williams and Wilmore again to Earth. As an alternative, the empty spaceship was undocked from the ISS and flown backfor an automatic, parachute-assisted touchdown within the New Mexico desert whereas the 2 astronauts have been saved aboard the ISS to await a flight house on a scheduled crew rotation mission, though this meant protecting them in orbit for months.

Williams this month instructed reporters that she was wanting ahead to returning house to her household and two canine. “It’s been a rollercoaster for them, probably a little bit more than for us,” she mentioned.

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