NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Postlaunch News Conference

Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program, participates in a postlaunch news conference at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, March 4, 2024. NASA astronauts Commander Matthew Dominick, Pilot Michael Barratt, and Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin, launched aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy at 10:53 p.m. Sunday, March 3 and will spend about six months at the orbiting laboratory as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program, participates in a postlaunch news conference at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, March 4, 2024. NASA astronauts Commander Matthew Dominick, Pilot Michael Barratt, and Mission Specialist Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Alexander Grebenkin, launched aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft from Kennedy at 10:53 p.m. Sunday, March 3 and will spend about six months at the orbiting laboratory as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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