SpaceX mission to rescue two stranded astronauts docks at International Space Station [Video]

THE SPACEX CREW that will retrieve the two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station has docked with the orbiting laboratory, a live stream of the mission showed.

Astronauts Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams launched into space aboard Boeing’s Starliner on 5 June for what was meant to be an eight-day stay.

But they have been in space for over 100 days, with their return delayed by problems with the spacecraft’s propulsion system that emerged during the flight there.

Nasa was forced to weigh a radical change in plans, and after weeks of intensive tests on the Starliner’s reliability, the space agency finally decided to return it to Earth without its crew…