NASA astronaut Nick Hague (left) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov make the journey from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Space Launch Complex-40 at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of launch on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Hague and 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 for the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.
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