A SpaceX mission that took off at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:17 p.m. on Saturday will help bring the two Boeing Starliner astronauts home and represents the first human spaceflight mission starting at the new launch pad.
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Two stranded astronauts are one step closer to returning home from the International Space Station.
A SpaceX rescue mission took off at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1:17 p.m. on Saturday, aiming to eventually bring the two Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck in orbit since June 5 back to Earth.
The launch was the first human spaceflight mission starting at the new launch pad. NASA cleared the two-man crew for the mission aboard SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on Friday.
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov set off for a five-month science mission on the orbiting laboratory.
