{"id":32853,"date":"2024-09-30T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32853"},"modified":"2024-09-30T02:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T07:37:16","slug":"nasa-spacex-launch-capsule-to-bring-home-starliner-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32853","title":{"rendered":"NASA, SpaceX launch capsule to bring home Starliner astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">NASA and SpaceX launched a spacecraft Saturday afternoon that will head to the International Space Station and bring&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/nasa-astronauts-feel-returning-boeings-starliner\/story?id=113656637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two astronauts<\/a>&nbsp;back to Earth in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon took off with two empty seats and extra spacesuits for Barry &#8220;Butch&#8221; Wilmore and Sunita &#8220;Suni&#8221; Williams, who have been in space since June. Wilmore and Williams performed the first crewed test flight of Boeing&#8217;s Starliner and were supposed to be on the ISS for about a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">NASA and Boeing officials decided to send Starliner back to Earth after several mechanical issues, keeping Wilmore and Williams onboard the ISS until February 2025.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/boeings-starliner-undocks-iss-heads-back-earth-nasa\/story?id=113452385\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The unmanned Starliner landed safely at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in the early hours of Sept. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Dragon spacecraft was originally scheduled to travel to the ISS with four astronauts for a routine science mission. Astronauts Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov will crew the spacecraft to the ISS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It is expected to take 28.5 hours for the spacecraft to autonomously dock to the space station at 5:30 p.m. ET Sunday, Sept. 29, while traveling 17,000 mph orbiting the Earth, according to NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/nasa-spacex-prepare-launch-capsule-bring-home-stranded\/story?id=113954995\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA and SpaceX launched a spacecraft Saturday afternoon that will head to the International Space Station and bring&nbsp;two astronauts&nbsp;back to Earth in February. The SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon took off with two empty seats and extra spacesuits for Barry &#8220;Butch&#8221; Wilmore and Sunita &#8220;Suni&#8221; Williams, who have been in space since June. Wilmore and Williams performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5783],"tags":[687,2643],"class_list":["post-32853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-nasa","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32855,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32853\/revisions\/32855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}