By coinnews 
00:00 Speaker A
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is bringing home two astronauts who’ve been stranded on the International Space Station since last June. Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams arrived on ISS June 6th of last year on the Boeing Starling liner’s first crude mission. SpaceX Dragon ship left the ISS just after 1:00 a.m. Eastern this morning, and is expected to touchdown in Florida around 6:00 6:00 p.m. Eastern this evening.
00:40 Speaker B
NASA’s original plan was for the astronauts to stay on the space station a little over a week, and then take the Boeing spacecraft back to Earth. Officials deemed the return trip too risky for the astronauts as problems arose with the Starliner’s propulsion system, though the ship successfully flew back on its own in early September. President Trump celebrated the return mission saying in a post on Truth Social that he spoke with NASA’s acting head to approve bringing the astronauts home two weeks earlier than previously scheduled.