NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free, left, waves farewell as NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the Crew-9 mission launch, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission is the ninth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
Photographer NASA/Keegan Barber
Album 20240924_spacex_crew_9
Location Kennedy Space Center
Date September 24, 2024