What preparations nasa making to bring Sunita back?
To bring sunita williams and Butch Wilmore back to Earth, the US space agency nasa recently announced that it would bring them back in february 2025 with a SpaceX space ship under the Crew-9 mission. Now in this connection, 2 other nasa astronauts have started preparations. In fact, for the Crew-9 mission, NASA's Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov will be in quarantine before going to the international Space Station (ISS).
Who is nasa sending to the ISS?
A statement issued by nasa said that the Crew-9 mission will be launched on september 26 with the help of Space-X. In fact, nasa will send Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov to the international Space Station from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in florida with the help of Space-X's Falcon 9 rocket. According to indian time, the Crew-9 mission will be launched on september 25 at 11:58 pm. About 6 hours after the launch, both the astronauts will reach the international Space Station.
How will sunita williams return?
Actually, under NASA's Crew Mission, usually 4 astronauts are sent to the ISS via Dragon Space Ship. However, this time only 2 astronauts will be sent to the ISS under the Crew-9 mission. This is so that sunita williams and Wilmore can return via Dragon spacecraft under the Crew-9 mission in february 2025. Actually, the Dragon space ship has four seats and nasa has sent only 2 astronauts to the ISS. In such a situation, Williams and Wilmore will return to Earth by sitting on the two empty seats at the time of return.
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