NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 Falcon-9 Rocket Rollout at Kennedy Space Center
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft atop, is vertical at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 launch to the International Space Station.
As preparations continue for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft is rolled out to the launch pad of Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024.
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is mated to the company's Falcon 9 rocket at SpaceX’s hangar at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, at Cape Canaveral.
As preparations continue for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft was rolled out to the launch pad of Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and made vertical between Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024 and Monday, Feb. 26, 2024.
Four Commercial Crew members are preparing for their launch to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft. Commander Matt Dominick (NASA), Pilot Mike Barratt (NASA), and Mission Specialists Jeanette Epps (NASA) and Alexander Grebenkin of Roscosmos (Russia) will lift off aboard Dragon no earlier than 12:04 a.m. EST on Friday, March 1, 2024. They are scheduled to dock at the Harmony module’s forward port at 6 a.m. on Saturday beginning a six-month space research mission on the orbital lab.
Learn more about the SpaceX Crew-8 Mission:
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program works with the American aerospace industry to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the orbital outpost on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from American soil.
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.
Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Image Dates: Feb. 23-26, 2024
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