1 of 4 | U.S. Area Power colonel and Crew-9 commander Nick Hauge (L), together with Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (R), had been greeted Sunday by crew members already onboard the Worldwide Area Station, together with stranded NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. (Courtesy of NASA).
Sept. 29 (UPI) — The group of the Dragon Crew-9 boarded the Worldwide Area Station after a profitable docking Sunday night, floating via a vestibule becoming a member of the 2 spacecraft.
U.S. Area Power colonel and commander Nick Hauge, together with Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, had been greeted by crew members already onboard the ISS, together with NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.
“It is going to be a tremendous expedition,” Hague mentioned throughout a press briefing at 7:40 p.m. EDT. “So, am actually trying ahead to attending to work up right here.”
Hague and Gorbunov held their welcome ceremony with the remainder of the ISS crew surrounding them. Gorbunov greeted viewers in Russian.
Williams and Wilmore had been successfully stranded onboard the ISS when the Boeing Starlilner, which introduced them to the station in June, was deemed unsafe to hold them again to Earth due to issues with its directional thrusters. The pair’s 5 day mission was abruptly prolonged to five months.
That resulted in Crew-9 decreasing its group from 4 members to 2 to go away room for the stranded astronauts to have a experience residence. Following their prolonged keep on the ISS, Williams and Wilmore will grow to be a part of Crew-9, and that Dragon module is scheduled to convey them, together with Hague and Gorbunov, residence in February.
Starliner returned uncrewed to Earth safely earlier this month.
That is Hague’s second journey to the ISS, Gorbunov’s first. There are actually presently 11 group members onboard the ISS.
The collective group aboard the ISS now enters per week lengthy “handover interval” to “set them up for achievement,” mission management mentioned not lengthy after the pair entered the ISS. Crew-9 now turns into a part of ISS Expedition 72.
The Crew-9 Dragon was launched on Saturday from Cape Canaveral in Florida. However simply 11 hours after the launch, SpaceX introduced it might droop future launches till it may decide the reason for operational issues with Crew-9’s second stage rocket.
“After at present’s profitable launch of Crew-9, Falcon 9’s second stage was disposed within the ocean as deliberate, however skilled an off-nominal deorbit burn. Because of this, the second stage safely landed within the ocean, however exterior of the focused space. We’ll resume launching after we higher perceive root trigger,” SpaceX posted on X.
The ISS has been regularly manned for twenty-four years with crews from all around the world.