SpaceX Crew-9 Wall Signing of Mission Patch

Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov signs his name 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, ahead of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission. Crew-9 is the ninth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket that will send Gorbunov and NASA astronaut Nick Hague 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.