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A capsule made by Elon Mask’s SpaceX was created at the International Space Station on Sunday morning, providing a new crew to enable our innovator Sunny Williams and Boch Willmore to return to Earth after a nine -month mission, which was thought to last for eight days.
The dragon capsule was doked at 12.04 in the morning about 29 hours after the United States, Japan and Russia started their journey from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
With Williams and Wilmore, NASA’s innovator Nick Heg and Russian astronaut Alexandra Gorbunov, it is expected to return home on Wednesday after an intervention.
The original plan was for the Boeing CST -100 Starliner that took Williams and Wilmore to ISS in June to bring them home shortly after them MissionThe
However, in August, NASA decided that the starliner could not be used due to thruster problems and helium leaks in the external journey.
The decision was a disgraceful push for Boeing, at which time the question was raised about the company’s space ambition when its original commercial aircraft operation was already under intense regulatory pressure after last year Mid-Aer Blout A 737 maximum panel of a door.
