NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Prelaunch News Conference

Brian Cizek, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, addresses the media during a prelaunch news conference at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 launch. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. Launch is targeted for 1:17 p.m. EDT 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 with SpaceX to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Brian Cizek, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, addresses the media during a prelaunch news conference at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 launch. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket. Launch is targeted for 1:17 p.m. EDT 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 with SpaceX to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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