Monday 17 March 2025 04:06 GMT

SpaceX craft links with ISS to rescue trapped astronauts


(MENAFN) On Sunday morning, SpaceX’s Dragon spaceship, with four team members aboard, successfully anchored with the International Space Station (ISS), marking a significant move toward rescuing NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded in space for nine months.

The Dragon spaceship was initiated aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 p.m. Eastern Time (2303 GMT) on Friday.

On Sunday, following a 29-hour journey, the spacecraft successfully anchored with the ISS at approximately 12:04 a.m. Eastern Time (0404 GMT).

The Crew-10 mission, which transports NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, is now underway to the ISS.

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