NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Live Launch Coverage

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft lifts off on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard 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 of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Hague and Gorbunov launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT to begin a mission aboard the orbital outpost lasting about five months.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft lifts off on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard 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 of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Hague and Gorbunov launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT to begin a mission aboard the orbital outpost lasting about five months.

Photographer NASA/Ben Smegelsky
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