SpaceX launches half-empty spaceship so it can bring Boeing's astronaut crew home next year

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Screenshot of SpaceX Crew Dragon launching from Florida's Cape Canaveral on September 28, 2024.
Space X's spaceship launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday.

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SpaceX is launching 4 people on a risky mission to fly through radiation belts and do the first commercial spacewalk

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The Polaris Dawn crew: Anna Menon, Scott Poteet, Jared Isaacman, and Sarah Gillis.

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NASA picks SpaceX to bring home the American astronauts stuck in space. It's the latest blow to Boeing.

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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner, have been stuck in space for 11 weeks.

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NASA admits it's been working with SpaceX on a backup plan to retrieve Boeing's 2 stuck astronauts. It doesn't sound ideal.

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A SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle approaches the International Space Station.

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NASA says it can ask SpaceX to bring Boeing astronauts home if needed, as they reach 51 days on the space station

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Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore made a brief appearance on a call with press from the space station.

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