SpaceX launches mission Crew-9 to bring stranded Starliner astronauts home
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A SpaceX mission to send a spacecraft for the return of two astronauts who went to the International Space Station (ISS) on a Boeing Starliner hasbeen launched on Saturday (Sep 28) from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission was supposed to launch on Thursday but was delayed due to the deadly Hurricane Helene which hit Florida and other parts of the United States.
NASA’s Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will finally be brought back home after spending over 100 days longer than expected on the ISS.
The mission, Crew-9 took off at around 1:17 pm ET on Saturday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
NASAstreamed the launch on their website.
After the Hurricane Helene danger passed, the mission teams reset everything to launch Crew-9.
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Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, said, “We rolled out a little late this morning. We are vertical at the pad.”
SpaceX has provided the service eight times in the past four years, carrying astronauts to and from the space station under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. However, the outbound leg of this mission will carry only two crew members instead of four – NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
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The two other seats will fly empty, reserved for Williams and Wilmore to occupy on the spacecraft’s return flight in 2025.
“The word that comes to mind for this flight is ‘agility,’” Steve Stich said during a pressconference ahead of the launch on Friday.
(With inputs from agencies)
