Crew-9 astronauts arrive at space station after SpaceX reports rocket anomaly

After an extended stay on the International Space Station (ISS), astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to return home via SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule.

The capsule, part of the Crew-9 mission, docked at the ISS on Sunday with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on board.

Williams and Wilmore were initially part of a Boeing Starliner mission, but issues with the spacecraft led NASA to reassign them to Crew-9, as reported by CNN.

They will spend approximately five months on the ISS before returning to Earth, with their journey scheduled no earlier than February.

Written by Emily Begley