Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent his well wishes to the crew of the SpaceX-NASA mission to retrieve the two stranded astronauts on the International Space Station ahead of their launch tonight.
Both of the stranded astronauts are former Navy officers and several of the astronauts on their way to retrieve them are active-duty military members. The Army, Navy, and Air Force are all represented.
“To the SpaceX/NASA Crew-10,” Hegseth said in a post on X. “We are praying for you. We wish you Godspeed, and we look forward to welcoming you all home soon.”
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Hegseth said in an accompanying video that stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are former Navy captains. Wilmore and Williams have been stuck aboard the space station since June of last
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