Watch SpaceX's Crew-9 astronaut mission arrive on the ISS right now

SpaceX’s two-person Crew-9 mission will arrive on the Worldwide House Station (ISS) right now (Sept. 29), and you’ll watch the motion stay.

Crew-9’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Freedom, is scheduled to dock with the ISS right now round 5:30 p.m. EDT (2130 GMT). You may watch the rendezvous stay through NASA+ and the company’s web site, starting at 3:30 p.m. EDT (1930 GMT). House.com will carry the feed as effectively, if NASA makes it out there.

The protection will proceed by hatch opening and the ISS crew’s welcoming remarks, that are anticipated round 7:15 p.m. EDT (2315 GMT) and seven:40 p.m. EDT (2340 GMT), respectively.

Crew-9 launched Saturday afternoon (Sept. 28) from House Launch Complicated-40 (SLC-40) at Florida’s Cape Canaveral House Drive Station, sending NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov into orbit.

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It was the first-ever human spaceflight to elevate off from SLC-40. And Hague, who’s a colonel within the U.S. House Drive, grew to become the primary energetic member of that comparatively new army department to achieve area.

Crew-9 is notable in one other approach as effectively. SpaceX Crew Dragon capsules normally ferry 4 individuals to the Worldwide House Station, however NASA minimize Crew-9’s astronaut manifest in half to avoid wasting seats for 2 individuals already on the orbiting lab who want a experience residence.

That duo — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — arrived on the ISS in June on the primary crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule. Their mission was alleged to final simply 10 days or so, however Starliner suffered thruster issues in orbit, and NASA prolonged the capsule’s keep on the ISS to review the difficulty.

The company ultimately determined that bringing Wilmore and Williams residence on Starliner was too dangerous. So the capsule returned to Earth uncrewed on Sept. 7, and its former crew will come residence on Freedom with Hague and Gorbunov when Crew-9 ends, in February 2025.

Wilmore and Williams are two of 9 astronauts who’re at present residing aboard the ISS. The opposite seven are NASA’s Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps and Donald Pettit, and cosmonauts Alexander Grebenkin, Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner.

Barratt, Dominick, Epps and Grebenkin got here up with SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission in March. They may head again right down to Earth not lengthy after Crew-9 arrives, if all goes in line with plan.