NASA Revamps SpaceX's Crew 9 Lineup To Make Room For Astronauts Stranded At ISS Due To Boeing's Starliner Issues
NASA Revamps SpaceX's Crew 9 Lineup To Make Room For Astronauts Stranded At ISS Due To Boeing's Starliner Issues
Only two astronauts will launch on NASA's upcoming SpaceX Crew-9 mission instead of four to accommodate the two astronauts who arrived at the station aboard Boeing's (NYSE:BA) Starliner spacecraft, the space agency said on Friday.
作爲適應波音（紐交所：BA）Starliner飛船兩名抵達空間站的宇航員的航天局週五表示，NASA即將進行的SpaceX Crew-9任務將只有兩名宇航員，而不是四名。
What Happened: NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch on the SpaceX Crew 9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than Sept. 24 on a four-seat SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
NASA宇航員尼克·哈格和俄羅斯宇航員亞歷山大·戈爾布諾夫將在SpaceX Crew 9任務中乘坐一艘四座位的SpaceX Dragon飛船最早在9月24日之後飛往國際空間站（ISS）。
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who are currently at the station, will join Hague and Gorbunov on their return journey to Earth in February 2025, the agency said.
該機構表示，目前正在空間站上的蘇尼塔·威廉姆斯和布奇·威爾莫爾將在2025年2月與哈格和戈爾布諾夫一同返回地球。
NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson, who were previously slated to fly on crew 9, will now be reassigned to a future mission, NASA added.
此前計劃乘坐Crew 9飛行的NASA宇航員贊娜·卡德曼和斯蒂芬妮·威爾遜將被重新分配至未來的任務，NASA補充道。
"While we've changed crew before for a variety of reasons, downsizing crew for this flight was another tough decision to adjust to given that the crew has trained as a crew of four," NASA chief astronaut Joe Acaba said.
「雖然由於各種原因我們曾多次更換機組成員，但減少該任務的機組規模對於已經作爲四名機組成員進行訓練的機組來說是一個艱難的決定，」NASA首席宇航員喬·阿卡巴表示。
Why It Matters: Williams and Wilmore launched into space on June 5 aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
威廉姆斯和威爾莫爾於6月5日乘坐波音的Starliner飛船進入太空。
Though the two were supposed to return in about eight days, technical issues were identified with the spacecraft while docking delayed the return journey. NASA agency subsequently decided to scrap the plan to bring the astronauts back on the Boeing spacecraft altogether.
雖然他們原計劃在大約8天后返回，但在靠近時出現了飛船的技術問題，這導致了返回旅程的延遲。隨後，NASA機構決定完全放棄使用波音飛船將宇航員帶回地球的計劃。
Starliner will now undock from the space station as early as Sept. 6 and return to Earth without a crew.
Starliner現在將可能在9月6日之後從空間站上分離，並無人駕駛地返回地球。
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