NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Astronaut Suit-Up

NASA astronaut Nick Hague (right) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov play a traditional game of cards inside Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Gorbunov and NASA astronaut Nick Hague 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 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.