A SpaceX Falcon rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission aims to replace the NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who are currently stranded on the ISS due to problems with their Boeing Starliner spacecraft.
SpaceX on Saturday launched a Falcon rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday with two crew members on board to deliver the Dragon capsule to the International Space Station that will bring back the astronauts stranded by their troubled Boeing Starliner next year.
' NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy called 'human spaceflight' 'complicated and dynamic' at a post-launch news conference Saturday. 'What a fabulous day it was today,' she said. 'We only have two crew members instead of four. A crew member change is not a small thing.' She added that 'it was the right thing to do.
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