After more than nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, the two ‘stranded’ NASA astronauts, are finally nearing their long-awaited return—thanks to the successful launch of a replacement crew on Friday (Mar 14).
A Falcon 9 rocket, carrying a Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:03 pm (2303 GMT). Bound for the orbital outpost. The four-person Crew-10 mission marks the beginning of a crucial crew swap and the first step to bringing Williams and Wilmore home to earth.
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