Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode

354, crew 9.

I'm Dane Turner, and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.

We're getting ready for the next mission in NASA's commercial crew program,

sending one NASA astronaut and one Ros Cosmos cosmonaut

to the International Space Station on the ninth crew rotation mission.

Following NASA's decision to return Boeing Starliner's

crew flight test or CFT uncrewed, crew 9 will launch with two empty seats.

NASA astronaut and crew nine commander Nick Haig and Ros Cosmos

Cosmina and mission specialist Alexander Gorbanov will fly to station

aboard SpaceX Dragon Freedom. There they will join the crew of exhibition 72, bringing the station's population up to 7,

to conduct their mission of executing science investigations and technology demonstrations until early next year

when they will return with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunny Williams.

We sat down with Nick Haig and Alexander Gorbunov, learning about their backgrounds, the mission, and plans once

they get to station.

Let's hear what Crew Nine had to say ahead of their flight. B-0-0-0.

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