A colorful sunset serves as the backdrop for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on the pad at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. The crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, are slated to launch to the International Space Station no earlier than 12:04 a.m. EST on Friday, March 1, from Launch Complex 39A.
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