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Monday, March 04, 2024

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launch Pad Departure | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launch Pad Departure | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 crew members right to left, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, Matthew Dominick, and Michael Barratt, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-8 mission launch Sunday, March 3, 2024. 


After suit-up and final fit checks, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts participate in a traditional game of cards inside the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building
NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Michael Barratt speak with family and friends as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia, plus NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, Matthew Dominick, and Michael Barratt, speak with family and friends as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building


NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts from right to left NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, Matthew Dominick, and Michael Barratt, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia smile and wave inside a Dragon spacecraft at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of liftoff 

NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 crewmates Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia take their first steps outside from the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to head to Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida prior to liftoff to the International Space Station at 10:53 p.m. EST Sunday, March 3, 2024.

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/Kim Shiflett/Aubrey Gemignani/SpaceX

Image Date: March 3, 2024


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