NASA's Space to Ground: Sunita in Charge | Week of Sept. 20, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground: Sunita in Charge | Week of Sept. 20, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia are scheduled to launch no earlier than 2:05 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station.

Crew-9 will be the first human spaceflight mission to launch from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral. This is the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the orbiting laboratory under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The crew will spend approximately five months at the station, conducting more than 200 science and research demonstrations 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: 3 minutes

Release Date: Sept. 20, 2024

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