SpaceX Crew-9 Wall Signing of Mission Patch

NASA astronaut Nick Hague (left) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov pose inside the Astronaut Crew Quarters in the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. Hague and Gorbunov will launch on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission – the ninth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket that will send the crew to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The mission is scheduled to launch at 2:05 p.m. EDT Sept. 26, 2024, from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.