NASA’s SpaceX Crew 9 Arrives At ISS, Sunita Williams And Butch Wilmore To Head Home Soon
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- Sep 30, 2024
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Updated: Sep 30, 2024 10:12 IST
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NASA Astronaut Nick Hague and Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov successfully docked at the orbiting facility on Sunday to rescue Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024. The Crew Dragon capsule was successfully launched on Sunday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Hague and Gorbunov were warmly welcomed by the Expedition 72 crew, which counts astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Don Pettit, Williams, Wilmore, as well as three cosmonauts from Roscosmos. In a post on X, NASA wrote, “Our Crew 9 mission arrives at ISS. Docking of their SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft is expected at 5:30 pm ET (2130 UTC), with the hatch opening at approximately 7:15 pm ET (2315 UTC).”
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