NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Postlaunch News Conference

A postlaunch news conference is hosted at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, March 4, 2024, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. From left to right are Jasmine Hopkins, NASA Communications; Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program; and Sarah Walker, director of SpaceX’s Dragon Mission Management. 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.