NASA-SpaceX to launch mission to bring back Sunita Williams

NASA-SpaceX is set to launch Crew-9, an astronaut and a cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS), in a mission that aims to bring stranded Indian-origin Sunita Williams back to Earth in February next year.

According to NASA, the



liftoff is targeted for 1:17 pm EDT (10:47 pm IST) on Saturday from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

“This is the first human spaceflight mission to launch from that pad,” the US space agency said.