NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Training in California & Florida

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Training in California & Florida

SpaceX Crew-9 Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson

SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Zena Cardman

SpaceX Crew-9 Commander Zena Cardman (left) and Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson (right)

SpaceX Crew-9 Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia

SpaceX Crew-9 Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia

SpaceX Crew-9 Pilot Nick Hague

SpaceX Crew-9 Pilot Nick Hague

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station poses for a photo in their flight suits in SpaceX’s new Dragon refurbishing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From left are, Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson of NASA, Pilot Nick Hague of NASA, Mission Specialist Alexsandr Gorbunov from Roscosmos (Russia), and Commander Zena Cardman from NASA.

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station posed for photos during training at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and at SpaceX’s new Dragon refurbishing facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

For more on Crew-9, visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-9/

Zena Cardman's NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/zena-cardman/

Nick Hague's NASA Biography:

https://www.nasa.gov/people/nick-hague/

Stephanie Wilson's NASA Biography

https://www.nasa.gov/people/stephanie-d-wilson/

This will be Gorbunov’s first trip to space and the station. Born in Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, Russia, he studied engineering with qualifications in spacecraft and upper stages from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Gorbunov graduated from the military department with a specialty in operation and repair of aircraft, helicopters, and aircraft engines. Before being selected as a cosmonaut in 2018, he worked as an engineer for Rocket Space Corporation Energia and supported cargo spacecraft launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

This is the ninth rotational mission to the space station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. It works with the American aerospace industry to meet the goal of safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the orbital outpost on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from American soil.

More information on NASA’s Commercial Crew Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

Image Credit: SpaceX

Image Dates: July 22-23, 2024

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