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After waiting for several months, Indian-origin American astronaut Sunita Williams is expected to land on Earth. The spacecraft to bring back Sunita has reached space. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Alexander Gorbunov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos have successfully reached the International Space Station aboard the Dragon capsule of NASA and SpaceX's Crew-9 mission. The team is here to bring back Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore.
Sunita was looking happy
Sunita and her partner Butch are stranded in space since June-2024. Now, as the SpaceX capsule arrives, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore happily welcome it. His video has also surfaced.
SpaceX Crew 9 will return next year
SpaceX launched the mission on Saturday, which reached the space station today. Space mission SpaceX Crew 9 will return to Earth next year. Haig and Gorbunov entered the space station at 7:04 p.m., NASA said in a statement.
Haig and Gorbunov were welcomed by the space station's Expedition 72 crew. They include NASA astronauts Matthew Dominik, Michael Barrett, Janet Epps, Don Pettit, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexander Grabenkin, Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner.
The number of crew on the space station will increase
“You are officially welcomed,” NASA's Johnson Space Center wrote in a post on social media platform X. The Expedition 72 crew welcomed Crew 9. Specifically, Crew-8 members Dominic, Barrett, Epps and Grebenkin will return to Earth in early October, by which time the crew size on the space station will increase to 11 people.
On Saturday, SpaceX launched the two-crewed Crew-9 mission to the ISS to return Starliner astronauts.
Sunita and Butch will be back in February-2025
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will once again continue their work as part of the Mission 71/72 crew until February 2025. They will return aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with two other crew members assigned to the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission.