SpaceX Dragon Capsule Will Bring Sunita Williams From Space: The spacecraft that brought Sunita Williams back to Earth reached the International Space Station on Sunday. The Crew Dragon capsule spacecraft of Elon Musk-owned company SpaceX reached the space station at 5:30 pm according to America’s Eastern Time Zone. As soon as the capsule hatch opened at 7.04 pm, eight astronauts including Sunita Williams, who were already present there, welcomed Nick Hague and Alexander Gorbuno.
NASA had signed an agreement with Musk’s SpaceX to bring Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore stranded on the space station back to Earth. SpaceX’s Dragon capsule was selected for the Crew-9 mission. It was launched on Saturday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. When this ship was launched, instead of four astronauts only two were sent. In this, two seats were reserved for Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. This space ship will revolve around the Earth in space for 5 months and then will bring Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore by the end of February.
NASA shared the video
Let us tell you that NASA has shared the video of Dragon Capsule reaching the space station and meeting all the old astronauts already present there. In the video, it is seen how the SpaceX capsule is slowly approaching the space station and the space station is visible blurry in the depths of space. At the same time, NASA has shared the video of the capsule floating.
LIVE: Our #Crew9 mission arrives at the @Space_StationDocking their @SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft is expected at 5:30pm ET (2130 UTC), with hatch opening at approximately 7:15pm ET (2315 UTC). https://t.co/ALa6kUF98N
— NASA (@NASA) September 29, 2024