Welcome, #Crew9! After floating through the Dragon’s hatch, our new arrivals join the crew aboard the @Space_Station. They’ll spend five months conducting @ISS_Research and maintenance on the orbiting lab. pic.twitter.com/DJX7f9vxlg
— NASA (@NASA) September 29, 2024
Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 06:41am on 30 Sep 2024,Monday Science
SpaceX’s Crew-9 successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, ready to return stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams. The mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday. Wilmore and Williams, delivered to the ISS by Boeing’s Starliner in June, were initially scheduled for an eight-day stay, but issues with the Starliner’s propulsion system extended their mission. NASA decided to return them via SpaceX after extensive testing. Crew-9’s astronauts, Nick Hague and Alexander Gorbunov, will spend five months conducting over 200 experiments on the ISS.
