Efforts to ‘rescue’ Two NASA astronauts stranded NASA and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov this week began their final stage of preparation ahead of SpaceX’s scheduled launch. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will blast off “no earlier than Sept. 25” aboard a Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. The spacecraft is expected to return home in February with Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams finally on board..
“The crew will lift off from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft“Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 crew aboard the station,” a recent press release from the space agency explained.
Hague has now spent 203 days in space since he was first selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013. This will be his third launch and second mission to the space station.
Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the space station as commander and mission specialist, respectively, as part of a reduced two-crew flight aboard a SpaceX Dragon.
The duo will join Wilmore and Williams, as well as three other astronauts, on the ISS for about six months. During this time, the group will “conduct scientific investigations in microgravity and complete a number of operational activities before returning home.”
Hague completed her astronaut training in July 2015 as part of NASA’s 21st astronaut class. She was a member of the NASA Astronauts’ 1st Class, which launched in 2015. Her next spaceflight occurred in 2019, when she joined three of her classmates—NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan—aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.
He was born and raised in Kansas before graduating from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. He attended the United States Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Hague’s military career took him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Air Force to the United States Space Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Force’s director of test and evaluation at the Pentagon.
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