A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft lifts off on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Crew-9 is the ninth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Hague and Gorbunov launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT to begin a mission aboard the orbital outpost lasting about five months.

Live launch coverage of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission, beginning with a summarized video of astronaut suit-up inside the iconic Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout building and continuing through launch from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, Sept. 28, on a Falcon 9 rocket, carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague, commander, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, mission specialist. The spacecraft is scheduled to dock to the International Space Station at about 5:30 a.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 29.