NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Postlaunch News Conference

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator of NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, participates in a postlaunch news conference at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov launched aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from nearby Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 1:17 p.m. EDT on the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Ken Bowersox, associate administrator of NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate, participates in a postlaunch news conference at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov launched aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from nearby Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 1:17 p.m. EDT on the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Photographer NASA/Kim Shiflett
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