SpaceX has launched its mission to deliver again two astronauts stranded on the Worldwide House Station (ISS) since June.
The Dragon capsule, with two empty seats for Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday.
The pair’s mission to the house station was anticipated to final simply eight days however returned to Earth empty as a precaution after a fault was discovered within the new Boeing Starliner.
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov are flying recent provides to Buch and Suni and hope to deliver them residence in February.
The Dragon launch was scheduled for Thursday however was delayed by Hurricane Helen, which has left a path of destruction from Florida, north to Georgia and Tennessee and the Carolinas.
SpaceX, based by billionaire Elon Musk, is transporting crews from the ISS each six months.
Dragon is predicted to dock with the ISS at round 21:30 GMT on Sunday.
Below a contract between NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian federal house company, the three-seat Russian Soyuz spacecraft carries one NASA astronaut on every flight to the ISS and one astronaut flies on every four-seat Dragon.
