A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch its Crew Dragon spacecraft with a crew of NASA and Roscosmos astronauts to the International Space Station on Sept. 27, 2024. The SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon will take off with two empty seats and extra spacesuits for Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams, who have been in space since June.
The spacecraft will go up with two empty seats for the returning astronauts.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is prepared to launch its Crew Dragon spacecraft with a crew consisting of NASA and Roscosmos Astronauts to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., Sept. 27, 2024 .to the International Space Station .
The SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon will take off with two empty seats and extra spacesuits for Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams, who have been in space since June. Wilmore and Williams performed the first crewed test flight of the Starliner and were supposed to be on the ISS for about a week. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams depart Kennedy Space Center for Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to board the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, June 5, 2024.NASA and Boeing officials decided to send Starliner back to Earth last month after several mechanical issues, keeping Wilmore and Williams onboard the ISS until February 2025.The unmanned Starliner landed safely at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in the early hours of Sept. 7.
The Dragon spacecraft was originally scheduled to travel to the ISS with four astronauts for a routine science mission. Astronauts Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov will crew the spacecraft to the ISS.
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