NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to conduct scientific experiments – NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will be busy on the International Space Station during her approximately five-month mission.

Crew 9 members will conduct more than 200 scientific investigations Blood clotting studies, humidity effects on crops grown in space, and vision problems in astronauts.

Researchers want to find out how environmental conditions affect platelets and megakaryocytes, which are large cells in the bone marrow. Both play important roles in blood clotting and immune response, and the results could provide answers for people in space and here on Earth.

The crew will also examine the vision problems that often occur while astronauts are in orbit and whether daily vitamin B supplementation makes a difference. It’s still unknown why some astronauts experience vision problems and others don’t, but researchers have been studying this for years.

Members of Crew-9 will participate in a spacewalk to repair one telescope attached to the outside of the space station.

Hague and Gorbunov are scheduled to launch to the space station 1:17 p.m. EDT aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.