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Monday, March 04, 2024

Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Mission | Kennedy Space Center

Launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Mission | Kennedy Space Center

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft launched NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia onboard, Sunday, March 3, 2024, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 





An exhaust plume from SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket

The first stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket returned to Landing Zone 1, Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sunday, March 3, 2024.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft launched NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin aboard at 10:53 p.m. EST on Sunday, March 3, 2024, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission is the eighth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the International Space Station, and the ninth flight of Dragon with people as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.


Learn more about the SpaceX Crew-8 Mission:

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 Credits: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani/SpaceX
Image Date: March 3, 2024


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