Two NASA astronauts left stranded in space for nine months after a Boeing spacecraft malfunction finally made their journey home Tuesday in a SpaceX capsule, with President Trump saying that they had been “virtually abandoned” by the Biden administration.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, departed from the International Space Station at 1:05 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, and splashed down off Florida’s coast at around 6 p.m.
SEE IT! Moment stranded astronauts brought back to Earth after they were abandoned by President Biden pic.twitter.com/2X7DqcKqqU
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What was initially planned as an eight-day mission aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched on June 5 turned into a nine-month ordeal when the capsule experienced…
