Crew-9 mission ready for launch, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore to return; What is NASA's complete planning?
NASA-SpaceX Crew-9 Launch Sunita Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore, who went on an eight-day space mission, have been on the International Space Station for more than three months. Now NASA and SpaceX are preparing to bring them back through the Crew-9 mission. Although its launch was also postponed, but now it is ready to fly. Know what NASA plans to do next.
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NASA and SpaceX's Crew-9 mission will bring back Indian-origin Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore who were stranded in space. The Crew-9 mission was initially planned to launch on September 26, but the weather conditions on the Gulf coast of Florida worsened due to Hurricane Helen.
For this reason, the mission was postponed. NASA's Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov of Russian space agency Roscosmos are going on the mission to bring back Sunita and Wilmore.
Will stay in the space station for five months
Both are being sent to the International Space Station (ISS) for a five-month mission. Hague and Gorbunov will stay on the ISS till February with the next crew rotation. Astronauts Jenna Cardman and Stephanie Wilson were also initially part of the Crew-9 mission, but they were removed due to lack of space for the returning passengers.
The mission was for eight days
It is worth noting that it has been more than three months since Sunita and Butch Wilmore, who initially went on a space mission for eight days, have been gone. Due to a technical fault in the Starliner spacecraft that carried them, it was called back to Earth empty. In such a situation, both the astronauts will now return through SpaceX's Crew-9 mission.
