Two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday welcomed the SpaceX capsule that will shuttle them home from a longer-than-anticipated mission.
The big picture: NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams had to extend their stay by months after technical issues prevented them from returning home aboard the Boeing Starliner craft that brought them there.
Life won't soon be the same for communities in North Carolina's mountains after Tropical Storm Helene.
Heartbreak in the hills: The French Broad and Swannanoa rivers swept through Asheville's well-known Biltmore Village and River Arts District. King Street in Boone, a postcard-perfect college town, turned into a rushing river. Interstate 40 is a chopped-up chain of closures.
