Wilmore and Williams will return on the SpaceX Dragon Freedom, the same spacecraft that transported the Crew-9 astronauts to the ISS. The astronauts' return is not a rescue mission, as their extended stay was planned last summer to accommodate crew ...
Now that NASA Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are back on Earth, when is the next SpaceX manned mission? How about Boeing Starliner? What we know.
Stranded” NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore launched June 2024 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Crew-9’s return to Earth was 9 months later.
The international all-civilian Fram2 crew is the first in space history to fly to orbit with no licensed pilot or trained astronaut on board.
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Space.com on MSNStarliner astronauts head back to Earth with SpaceX Crew-9 duo to make long-awaited landing (video)Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, together with Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov, departed the International Space Station at 1:05 a.m. EDT on Tuesday (March 18).
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday launched a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled before.
SpaceX has just launched its first private crew to orbit since the Polaris Dawn mission in September 2024. A Falcon 9 rocket launched the Fram2 crew from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 9:46 p.m. ET on Monday, March 31. SpaceX shared a clip of the rocket leaving the launchpad:
Two astronauts returned to Earth after being stuck in space for nine months. CBS News New York's Dick Brennan reports.