Launched by Nasa and SpaceX, the Falcon 9 is picking up Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, whose eight days on board the International Space Station became nine monthsA long-awaited mission to return stranded US astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station has been launched by Nasa and SpaceX.The pair were due to spend eight days on the ISS in June, but technical problems with the experimental spacecraft that took them there have left them stuck on the orbital laboratory for nine months. Continue reading...
In March 2025, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center carrying four astronauts to the ISS to replace stranded astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stuck there for nine months due to technical issues with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft. Williams and Wilmore, along with two others, are expected to return to Earth on Wednesday after the new crew arrives. The mission was marked by controversy involving unsubstantiated claims by Donald Trump and Elon Musk that Joe Biden had abandoned the astronauts.
