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    Crew Access Arm Retracts

    Crew access arm retracts from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024.

    The launch director just gave a “go” for the crew access arm to retract away from SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket.    A few minutes later, Dragon’s launch escape system will be armed to allow the Crew-9 crew members to escape safely in the unlikely event of an anomaly from the moment the SpaceX …

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    Liftoff One Hour Away for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launch

    Image shows a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for NASA's Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024.

    The SpaceX closeout team has left the crew access arm, which will soon retract from the Dragon spacecraft. Launch, set for 1:17 p.m. EDT, is now less than an hour away.   Launch weather officers with the U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron are watching lightning, rain, and wind in the area, but launch currently remains …

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Mission to Perform Science Experiments

    NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei gets his eyes checked aboard the International Space Station in May 2021.

    NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will be busy during their roughly five-month mission at the International Space Station.   The Crew-9 members will conduct more than 200 science investigations involving blood clotting studies, moisture effects on plants grown in space, and vision changes in astronauts.   Researchers want to determine how environmental conditions …

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    Hatch Closed on SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft

    Image shows Hatch closure on SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024.

    The Dragon spacecraft’s hatch is now closed. Liftoff of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket remains on track for 1:17 p.m. EDT.   NASA astronaut Nick Hague, commander, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, mission specialist, will spend about five months at the International Space Station. This is Hague’s second spaceflight to the orbiting laboratory and Gorbunov’s first …

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Secured in Spacecraft

    Image shows NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 members secured inside Dragon spacecraft.

    NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are strapped in SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft.  Hague and Gorbunov soon will go through another round of spacesuit pressurization and communication checks with NASA and SpaceX launch and mission teams.   In addition to the two crew members, the spacecraft will carry cargo, science experiments, and personal items …

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Boards Spacecraft

    Image shows NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 members board SpaceX Dragon spacecraft

    NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are climbing into SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft at Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.   Just moments ago, the pair entered the White Room and continued the tradition of signing their names on the NASA meatball logo on the wall. Hague and Gorbunov …

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Arrives at Launch Pad

    Image shows NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 crewmembers arrive at Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024.

    Members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 are about two hours away from launch!  NASA astronaut Nick Hague, commander, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, mission specialist, arrived at Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, where a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft will launch them to the International Space Station.  Space …

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    Meet NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9

    Image shows NASA SpaceX Crew-9 astronaut Nick Hague

    Nick Hague became a NASA astronaut in 2013. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 launch today will be Hague’s third launch and second mission to the International Space Station. He has logged 203 days in space during Expeditions 59 and 60.  An active-duty colonel in the U.S. Space Force, Hague completed a developmental rotation with the Defense Department …

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Exits Crew Quarters, Heads to Launch Site

    Image shows NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 crew members walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024.

    The crew is on their way to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-40 to launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. This is the first time a human spaceflight mission will launch from the pad.  NASA astronaut Nick Hague, commander, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, mission specialist, spent the …

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    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Launch Day Milestones

    Image of SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket ahead of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station.

    NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 launch operations are underway to send a NASA astronaut and Roscosmos cosmonaut to the International Space Station. Crew-9 is the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station under the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.  Time                Event  (All times subject to change) 9:17 a.m.     …

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