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SpaceX launches rescue mission for two astronauts stranded on ISS.
SpaceX's Crew nine arrived at the International Space Station ISS
today carrying two astronauts and later set to return two
other astronauts stranded on the ISS back to Earth. SpaceX's
Crewe Dragon spacecraft named Freedom transported the Crew nineteen to

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the ISS and docked with the station at around two
thirty pm on September twenty nine. Crew nine had launched
on the afternoon of September twenty eighth from Space Launch
Complex forty SLC forty at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
in Florida, sending NASA astronaut Nick Haig and Russian cosmonaut

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Alexander Gorbanov into orbit. During their stay on the ISS,
Crew nine will conduct approximately two hundred scientific experiments aimed
at advancing human knowledge. This marked the first crude space
face mission launched from SLC forty. Nick Haig, a colonel
in the US Space Force, became the first member of

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this military branch to fly into space. Typically, SpaceX's Crew
Dragon carries four crew members, but NASA reduced the number
to two for this mission to make room for two
astronauts currently aboard the ISS who need to return to Earth,
Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams. Wilmore and Williams arrived at

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the ISS in June aboard Boeing's Starliner on its first
crude flight. Their mission was initially planned to last only
ten days, but after Starliner experienced propulsion system issues in orbit,
NASA extended their stay on the ISS to further investigate
the problem. Ultimately, NASA decided that bringing Wilmore and Williams

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back to Earth on Starliner would be too risky. Therefore,
Starliner returned to Earth without crew on September seventh. Astronauts
will return with Nick Haig and Alexander Gorbanov a board
Freedom when the Crew nine mission concludes in February twenty
twenty five. Wilmore and Williams are two of the nine

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astronauts currently residing on the ISS. The remaining seven include
NASA astronauts Michael Barrett, Matthew Dominic, Jeannette Epps, and Donald Pettitt,
along with Russian cosmonauts Alexander Gribinkin, Alexeyevchinin, and Evan Wagner,