NASA's stuck astronauts welcome their newly arrived replacements to the space station

A SpaceX capsule has arrived astatine the International Space Station, delivering the replacements for NASA's 2 stuck astronauts

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Just implicit a time aft blasting off, a SpaceX unit capsule arrived astatine the International Space Station connected Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s 2 stuck astronauts.

The 4 newcomers — representing the U.S., Japan and Russia — volition walk the adjacent fewer days learning the station’s ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Then the 2 volition strap into their ain SpaceX capsule aboriginal this week to adjacent retired an unexpected extended ngo that began past June.

Wilmore and Williams expected to beryllium gone conscionable a week erstwhile they launched connected Boeing’s archetypal astronaut flight. They deed the nine-month people earlier this month.

The Boeing Starliner capsule encountered truthful galore problems that NASA insisted it travel backmost empty, leaving its trial pilots down to hold for a SpaceX lift.

Their thrust arrived successful precocious September with a downsized unit of 2 and 2 bare seats reserved for the limb back. But much delays resulted erstwhile their replacements’ marque caller capsule needed extended artillery repairs. An older capsule took its place, pushing up their instrumentality by a mates weeks to mid-March.

Weather permitting, the SpaceX capsule carrying Wilmore, Williams and 2 different astronauts volition undock from the abstraction presumption nary earlier than Wednesday and splash down disconnected Florida's coast.

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