LOS ANGELES: NASA and SpaceX launched a new crew rotation mission from the US state of Florida to the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday, r...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Expedition 72 astronauts lifts off from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on September 28, 2024. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are to launch aboard the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station . - Gregg Newton / AFP): NASA and SpaceX launched a new crew rotation mission from the US state of Florida to the International Space Station on Saturday, reported Xinhua.
The mission, codenamed “Crew-9”, carries NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov to ISS. It is NASA’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent the crew aboard a Dragon spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 1.17 pm Eastern Time on Saturday. The spacecraft is scheduled to dock with ISS at 5.30 pm Eastern Time on Sunday, according to NASA.
The Crew-9 members will conduct more than 200 science investigations involving blood clotting studies, moisture effects on plants grown in space, and vision changes in astronauts, stated NASA. The spacecraft is expected to return to Earth next February with the Crew-9 astronauts, as well as NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who flew to the station in June aboard the malfunctioning Boeing Starliner, and have been stranded in space ever since.
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