NASA's SpaceX Crew-9: Launch Day Practice Session | Kennedy Space Center

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9: Launch Day Practice Session | Kennedy Space Center

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 crew members, NASA astronaut Nick Hague (left) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia (right), participate in a countdown dress rehearsal inside the crew suit-up room of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 crew members: Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia (left) and NASA astronaut Nick Hague (right)

NASA astronaut Nick Hague, wearing a SpaceX spacesuit, is seen departing the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral

NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free, left, waves farewell as NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Space Launch Complex 40

The official portrait of the International Space Station's Expedition 72 crew. At the top (from left) are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin (Russia), NASA astronaut and space station Commander Suni Williams, and NASA astronaut and Flight Engineer Butch Wilmore. In the middle row are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner (Russia) and NASA astronaut and Flight Engineer Don Pettit. In the bottom row are, Roscosmos cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Aleksandr Gorbunov (Russia) and NASA astronaut and Flight Engineer Nick Hague.

NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia, wearing SpaceX spacesuits, are seen as they depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the Crew-9 mission launch, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch is targeted for no earlier than 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. 

For more on Crew-9, visit: 

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-spacex-crew-9/

This is the ninth rotational mission to the space station under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. It works with the American aerospace industry to meet the goal of safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the orbital outpost on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from American soil.

More information on NASA’s Commercial Crew Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew

Expedition 72 Updates:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 72 Crew

Station Commander: Suni Williams

Roscosmos (Russia): Alexander Grebenkin, Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner 

NASA: Matthew Dominick, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps, Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit

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/Keegan Barber/Kim Shiflett/Bill Stafford/Robert Markowitz

Capture Date: Sept. 24, 2024

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