SpaceX Crew-9 lifts off with Nick, Aleksandr and a ‘furry friend’ Aurora, Dragon to offer Sunita Williams ride back home
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29 Sep 2024, 06:50 AM IST
SpaceX Crew-9 NASA Astronaut Nick Hague (Mission Commander) wearing SpaceX spacesuits, departs from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Control Building at Kennedy Space Center for Space Launch Complex 40 September 28, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Getty Images via AFP)
NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission successfully launched from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday. Crew 9, the first human spaceflight mission to launch from pad 40, is now en route to the International Space Station.
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"I just so happen to have a furry friend with me", Nick said in space-to-ground communication as he reached the microgravity. “We got a Falcon on board...This one’s a multi-flyer, though, was on my first flight with Aleksey and I, and with Aleskey and I and Christina, and now me and Alex, so say hello to Aurora,” he added.
A view from a rear camera inside Crew Dragon Freedom after reaching orbit with Nick Hague on the left, Aleksandr Gorbunov on the right, and the white furry zero-g indicator, Aurora (a falcon), in the center.
Dragon to offer Sunita Williams ride back home: Nick and Aleksandr launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket and SpaceX Dragon ‘Endurance’ spacecraft. NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who reached the ISS on Boeing's Starliner, will return with Nick and Aleksandr on the SpaceX craft in February 2025.
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