The countdown for the SpaceX Crew-9 mission has begun, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said on Friday. The mission, with two crew members and no pilot, is set to launch on September 26. This is the mission that has been tasked to bring back “stranded” Starliner astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from space.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are scheduled to arrive at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 1:30 pm ET (11:00 pm Indian Standard Time) on Saturday, September 21. They were earlier sent to routine pre-flight quarantine at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston ahead of the mission.NASA astronaut and Crew 9 Commander Nick Hague (left); Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (Mission Specialist) pose for portraits in their flight suits at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Hague and Gorbunov will fly to the International Space Station as commander and mission specialist,…
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