The SpaceX flight was dropping off the Crew Dragon capsule to help rescue stranded astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore when it encountered an issue.

A SpaceX crew on a rescue mission have arrived at the International Space Station, but it will still be some time before stranded Boeing Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams can return back to Earth.

A SpaceX capsule has docked at the International Space Station to bring back two stranded astronauts next year.

SpaceX +'s mission to rescue stranded astronauts Williams and Wilmore has faced a setback as Falcon 9 suffers an off-nominal deorbit burn.

NASA decided using the Boeing Starliner capsule to bring Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth was too risky following a string of technical glitches on their outwards journey.

When they return from the space station in February, they will bring back the two space veterans – Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams – whose stay on the ISS was prolonged for months by problems with their Boeing-designed Starliner spacecraft.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov took off inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon from Cape Canaveral, Florida, just after 1 p.m. on Saturday. The Crew-9 capsule docked with the ISS on Sunday at roughly 5:30 p.m. Eastern time and Hague and Gorbunov entered the ISS about 90 minutes later.

SpaceX launched its mission to rescue the two Starliner astronauts — but it didn't go entirely according to plan.

SpaceX has successfully delivered the Crew Dragon capsule that will rescue stranded NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. The pair recently watched as their ride, Boeing's issues-laden Starliner,

The Falcon 9 is temporarily grounded after an anomaly was detected following the launch of a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. View on euronews

The SpaceX Capsule on a mission to rescue two astronauts stranded in space has landed at the International Space Station.