NASA's Space to Ground: A Space Community | Week of Sept. 13, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground: A Space Community | Week of Sept. 13, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. The launch of NASA astronaut Nick Hague, commander, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (Russia), mission specialist of Crew-9 is targeted no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, from Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft named Freedom. As part of the Crew-9 crew, Hague and Gorbunov will join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who arrived at the space station in June.

Crew-9 is the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The crew will spend approximately five months at the orbiting laboratory conducting spacewalks, research demonstrations, and experiments before returning in February 2025.

Expedition 71 Updates:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 71 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin, Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner 

NASA: Tracy Dyson, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

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.

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: Sept. 13, 2024

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