After spending more than nine months in orbit, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft successfully docked at the ISS on Sunday, allowing Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, two stranded US astronauts,
To return home. The Crew-10 mission arrived at the ISS around 29 hours after launching from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Friday evening,
Carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.
A livestream of their arrival captured happy moments as they climbed aboard the ISS and greeted the Expedition 72 crew, which included Wilmore and Williams.
Wilmore and Williams’ mission, which had been scheduled to last just eight days, has seen them stranded on the ISS since June 2024. As the Starliner spacecraft approached the ISS,
NASA and Boeing discovered helium leaks and problems with the thrusters. As a result, the agency decided to return the spacecraft uncrewed in order to reduce risk and collect data.
