SpaceX begins mission to bring two stranded astronauts home

Space X has launched its ngo to bring backmost 2 astronauts stranded connected the International Space Station (ISS) since June.

The Dragon capsule, which has 2 bare seats for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, lifted disconnected from Cape Canaveral, Florida connected Saturday.

The pair's ngo astatine the abstraction presumption had lone been expected to past astir 8 days but aft a responsibility was recovered connected the caller Boeing Starliner it returned to Earth bare arsenic a precaution.

Nasa astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov are flying with caller supplies for Butch and Suni and expect to bring them location successful February.

The Dragon motorboat had been scheduled for Thursday but was delayed due to the fact that of Hurricane Helene, which has near a way of demolition done Florida, northbound done Georgia and into Tennessee and the Carolinas.

SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has been ferrying crews to and from the ISS each six months.

The Dragon is expected to dock with the ISS connected Sunday astatine astir 21:30 GMT.

Under a declaration betwixt Nasa and Roscosmos, the Russian national abstraction agency, three-seat Russian Soyuz spacecraft transportation 1 Nasa astronaut connected each formation to the ISS and a cosmonaut flies connected each four-seat Dragon.