Sunita Williams and Butch Barry Wilmore will be brought back to Earth in February next year. To bring them back, NASA will take the help of SpaceX’s Dragon Crew capsule. Sunita Crew-9 She will return with the astronauts of the mission. This mission was currently scheduled to be launched on 24 September 2024.
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Now the names of Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have been associated with this mission. Therefore, there will definitely be some changes in the mission. We will tell you about that later… First know who was going in the Crew-9 space station mission. These four astronauts are – Commander Jenna Cardman, Pilot Nick Hague, Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson and Russian Cosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexander Gorbunov.
It is possible that only two of these four will go to the space station because Sunita and Butch will be with them while returning. Or all four may go to the space station and two may stay there so that Sunita and Butch can return. It is also possible that under emergency evacuation, Sunita and Butch may also be brought back in the same Dragon capsule along with the four astronauts.
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Starliner will have to be removed from the space station for Dragon
If the Crew-9 mission is launched on 24 September 2024, then before that Boeing’s faulty spacecraft Starliner will have to be called back to Earth from the space station. This is so that the docking port can be freed for SpaceX’s Dragon capsule. Anyway, the plan for Crew-9 was that these people would stay for a short time. They were to do a scientific handover with Crew-8.
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What is Crew-9 Space Mission?
This is a part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The space station has 9 rotational missions in collaboration with SpaceX. So that research can continue on the space station. The world can keep getting accurate information about the weather. For more than two decades, there has always been an astronaut on the International Space Station. It has never been empty. That is why astronauts have been continuously sent there.