NASA SpaceX Crew 9, consisting of astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The mission, which is tasked with bringing stranded Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back from space, is set to launch on September 26.
Hague and Gorbunov will now remain in quarantine at the Neil A Armstrong Operations and Control Building at the Kennedy Center.
While there, they will conduct a dry rehearsal of the mission, change shifts to align their rest and wake periods with mission requirements, rehearse flight procedures, and make calls to family and friends.
He SpaceX Crew-9 You will also be welcomed by POT NASA leaders will attend a brief welcome ceremony. Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director Kelvin Manning and NASA Commercial Crew Program Deputy Director Dana Hutcherson will participate in the ceremony.
The ceremony will be streamed live on NASA+ and the agency’s website.
Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the International Space Station as commander and mission specialist, respectively, as part of a two-person flight aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft. In addition to Sept. 26 (at 2:05 p.m. EDT or 11:35 a.m. IST), launch opportunities are available on Sept. 27 and 28.
According POTHague and Gorbonov will join the Expedition 72 crew aboard the ISS. They will join NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner. The Crew 9 mission will increase the space station’s population to seven people.
The Crew 9 mission has no pilot
Initially, when SpaceX’s Crew 9 mission was supposed to take off with four astronauts, Nick Hague was the pilot assigned to the mission. But when the crew changed, Hague was assigned the role of Crew 9 mission commander.
“…the focus of the effort over the last three weeks is what do we need to do differently to be able to launch the rocket as a crew of two, as a pilotless crew,” Hague said.
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