The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, with NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson and Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko, will make a parachute-assisted landing at 7:59 a.m. (4:59 p.m. Kazakhstan time) on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the town of Dzhezkazgan. The spacecraft will execute its deorbit burn at 7:05 a.m.
Hague, Gorbunov, Wilmore and Williams are now expected to come home around Feb. 22 aboard the Crew 9 Dragon.
Increment 72 Overview• SpaceX Crew-9 Launch/Dock• SpaceX Crew-8 Undock• SpaceX Crew-9 Relocate• SpaceX CRS-31• Progress 88P Undock• Progress 90P Launch/Dock• Dream Chaser Cargo Mission (DCC-1)• Northrop Grumman CRS-21 Release• US EVAs (IROSA Prep 2A + RGA, CARD, RFG2.5, IROSA Prep 3B)• Progress 89P Undock• Progress 91P Launch/Dock• SpaceX Crew-10 Launch/Dock• SpaceX Crew-9 Undock/Splashdown• SpaceX Crew-32 Launch/Dock• Soyuz 73S Launch/Dock• Soyuz 72S Undock...Current ConfigurationNG-21 arrived in August and will remain berthed until January 202588P arrived in May and will undock in November89P arrived in August and will undock in February72S Soyuz arrived in Sept and will undock in April...ISS Significant Items of Interest• Sierra Space Dream Chaser Cargo Mission continuing with integration work at KSC• Targeting launch NET Dec 2024• JAXA’s HTV-X vehicle continues to make progress to its first flight• Launch NET Sept 2025• 2 successful H3 flights to date with 2 more missions prior to HTV-X1
BLAST: Falcon 9, CRS-31, ELaNa 52:https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/blastEagleSat-2: Falcon 9, CRS-31, ELaNa 52:https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/eaglesat-2QubeSat-2: Falcon 9, ELaNa 58, 2025:https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/qubesat-2R5-S6: ELaNa 59, 2024:https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/r5-s6Openorbiter-1 cancelled:https://www.nanosats.eu/sat/openorbiter-1
SpaceX and NASA are targeting no earlier than Saturday, September 28 for Falcon 9’s launch of Dragon’s ninth operational human spaceflight mission (Crew-9) to the International Space Station from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The instantaneous launch is at 1:17 p.m. ET, with a backup opportunity available on Sunday, September 29 at 12:54 p.m. ET if needed.
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=59683.msg2627438#msg2627438Prime: September 28, at 17:17:20 docking: September 29, at 21:37:26 UTCBackup: September 29, at 16:54:46 docking: September 30, at 21:18:04 UTC.
Saturday, Sept. 289:10 a.m.—Launch coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. Launch scheduled for 1:17 p.m. Stream on NASA+ Following the conclusion of launch and ascent coverage, NASA will switch to audio only. Continuous coverage resumes on NASA+ on Sunday, Sept. 29, at 3:30 p.m.3 p.m.—NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 postlaunch news conference. Stream on NASA+Sunday, Sept. 293:30 p.m.—Coverage of rendezvous and docking of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 to the International Space Station. Docking is scheduled for approx. 5:30 p.m. Coverage will continue through hatch opening at approx. 7:15 p.m. and the crew’s welcoming remarks at approx. 7:40 p.m. Stream on NASA+
<quote>December - spacewalk (ISS U.S. EVA-91) from Quest airlock (RFG retrieval, Swap sample collection of different surfaces with canisters which will be returned to ground for analysis) [Caldwell-Dyson, Barratt]</quote>I guess these names need an update. Any idea who will be doing these EVA's?
September 28 Falcon 9 • Crew 9Launch time: 1:17:21 p.m. EDT (1717:21 UTC)Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
William Harwood @cbs_spacenewsF9/Crew 9: LIFTOFF! At 1:17:21pm EDT (1717 UTC)
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, as the SpaceX Dragon Freedom docked to the orbiting complex at 5:30 p.m. EDT while the station was 260 statute miles over Botswana.
Why will Freedom be relocating? Can Cargo Dragon only dock to PMA-2?
And now he has:QuoteA Falcon 9 will launch the CRS-31 Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the ISS on October 30 at 12:49 a.m. EDT.
A Falcon 9 will launch the CRS-31 Cargo Dragon resupply mission to the ISS on October 30 at 12:49 a.m. EDT.