SpaceX’s Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) to rescue two astronauts trapped in space.
The astronauts, Butch Willmore and Suni Williams, became stranded at the ISS in June after Boeing’s Starliner shuttle was considered unsafe to bring them home.
The original mission was only meant to last one week.
According to the Daily Mail, the capsule, carrying NASA’s Nick Hague and the Russian Space Agency’s Alexander Gorbunov, will stay at the space station until February.
Hague said the trip would be an “amazing expedition.”
“Coming through the hatch and seeing all the smiles, and as much as I’ve laughed and cried in the last 10 minutes, I know it’s going to be an amazing expedition,” he said.
NASA’s associate administrator, Jim Free, said prior to the launch that despite Boeing’s failure, NASA is “a long way from saying, ‘Hey, we’re writing off Boeing.'”
