NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Prelaunch News Conference

NASA and SpaceX representatives participate in a prelaunch news conference on Friday, Sept. 27, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. The launch is targeted for no earlier than 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, Sept. 28, from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket will carry NASA astronaut Nick Hague, commander, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, mission specialist, to the space station for about a five-month science mission.

NASA and SpaceX representatives participate in a prelaunch news conference on Friday, Sept. 27, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. The launch is targeted for no earlier than 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, Sept. 28, from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket will carry NASA astronaut Nick Hague, commander, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, mission specialist, to the space station for about a five-month science mission.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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