NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Astronaut Walkout

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 crew members wave to family and friends as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for nearby Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for launch of Crew-9 on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. NASA astronaut Nick Hague (lright) 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 for the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.