Two NASA astronauts, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, have been stranded in space since June.
Both of them will now return in February next year through SpaceX’s Crew-9. The spacecraft will launch into space on September 26 and then Sunita and Wilmore will return to Earth through it.
The latest update on this mission is that astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov, who will accompany the KR-9, have reached NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Hague and Gorbunov will now quarantine in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Center. The two will conduct a dry dress rehearsal for the mission there, adjusting their rest and wake times to the mission’s requirements.
Apart from this, both will practice flight-related procedures. SpaceX Crew-9 will be welcomed by NASA in a welcome ceremony.
Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Kelvin Manning and Dana Hutcherson, Deputy Program Manager for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, will be part of the ceremony.
Let us tell you that Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the International Space Station as commander and mission expert. This will be part of a flight of two crew members aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft.
The launch of Crew-9 is scheduled for September 26 at 11.35 am Indian time. The dates of September 26, 27 and 28 have been kept ready for backup. Hague and Gorbunov will be part of the Expedition 72 crew on the ISS.
Although Crew-9 was initially being launched with four astronauts, Sunita and Butch Wilmore remained in space due to a technical problem with the Boeing Starliner.
After this, NASA decided that only two astronauts instead of four would go in Crew-9, so that Sunita and Wilmore could be brought back to Earth.
Let us tell you that in the first week of June, Sunita and Wilmore reached space via Boeing Starliner. This mission was going to be of a week, but due to problems in the spacecraft, it had to be brought back to Earth without astronauts.
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