SpaceX Launches Rescue Mission to Return Stranded NASA Astronauts to Earth

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov launched on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Florida's Space Coast on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. The mission was a rescue operation to retrieve two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who have been stuck at the International Space Station due to safety concerns with their Boeing spacecraft. The Boeing spacecraft returned to Earth empty earlier this month after a fault was found on the new Boeing Starliner.