SpaceX Dragon reaches stranded astronauts

Published March 16, 2025 8:58am ET



SpaceX Crew-10 successfully docked the Dragon spacecraft on the International Space Station early Sunday to begin its rescue mission of Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams.

This comes nine months after the two NASA astronauts became stranded on a mission that was meant to last about a week. During takeoff, the NASA spacecraft that carried Wilmore and Williams had a malfunction that made a return to Earth aboard too risky.

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