Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesSpaceX's two-person Crew-9 mission will arrive at the International Space Station today , and you can watch the action live.capsule, named Freedom, is scheduled to dock with the ISS today around 5:30 p.m. EDT . You can watch the rendezvous live viaand the agency's website, beginning at 3:30 p.m.
The coverage will continue through hatch opening and the ISS crew's welcoming remarks, which are expected around 7:15 p.m. EDT and 7:40 p.m. EDT , respectively.U.S. Space Force, but NASA cut Crew-9's astronaut manifest in half to save seats for two people already on the orbiting lab who need a ride home.
That duo — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — arrived at the ISS in June on the first crewed flight of Boeing'scapsule. Their mission was supposed to last just 10 days or so, but Starliner suffered thruster problems in orbit, and NASA extended the capsule's stay at the ISS to study the issue. The agency eventually decided that bringing Wilmore and Williams home on Starliner was too risky. So the capsule returned to Earth uncrewedWilmore and Williams are two of nine astronauts who are currently living aboard the ISS. The other seven are NASA's Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, Jeanette Epps and Donald Pettit, and cosmonauts Alexander Grebenkin, Aleksey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner.in March.
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