Representatives from NASA participate in a media event at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Feb. 25, upon the arrival of NASA astronauts Commander Matthew Dominick, Pilot Michael Barratt, and Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin in advance of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Participants include: Jennifer Kunz, associate director, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center; and Dana Hutcherson, deputy manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Launch is currently targeted for 12:04 a.m. EST, Friday, March 1. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station from right to left NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, Matthew Dominick, and Michael Barratt, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, stand before members of the news media at the Launch and Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. The Crew-8 mission is slated to launch aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, powered by the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A no earlier than 12:04 a.m. EST on Friday, March 1, 2024.

Photographer NASA Kim Shiflett

Album SpaceX_Crew_8

Location LLF

Date February 25, 2024

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Crew Arrival at Kennedy Space Center