An American and a Russian flew to the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday with two fewer colleagues than originally planned. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexander Korbunov take off on time from the Cape Canaveral space shuttle in Florida, USA aboard the “Crew Dragon” aboard tech billionaire Elon Musk’s private space company SpaceX. showed.
The departure was postponed a few days earlier due to the impact of storm “Helene”. The weather continued to be the biggest concern. Rain and storms signal danger until just before the start. “Crew Dragon” is expected on the ISS today. There, the crew will spend several months conducting scientific experiments as part of their mission.
In fact, two astronauts, Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, were supposed to be part of the now launched “Crew 9”. However, they had to vacate their seats to bring back to Earth two astronauts, Suni Williams and Barry Wilmore, who were stranded on the ISS due to technical problems with the “Starliner” spacecraft.
Williams and Wilmore actually only got to spend a week on the ISS. However, due to technical problems with the Boeing “Starliner” they flew to the ISS in June, NASA decided to bring the spacecraft back to Earth empty. Williams and Willmore now plan to return to Earth in February, along with Hack and Corbuno.
