NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Prelaunch News Conference

A prelaunch news briefing takes place inside the John Holliman Auditorium of the News Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station. Participants, from left to right, are Megan Cruz, NASA Communications; NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free; Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate; Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Dina Contella, deputy manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program; Jennifer Buchli, chief scientist, NASA’s International Space Station Program; and Brian Cizek, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Liftoff of the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program is targeted for 1:17 p.m. EDT Sept. 28, 2024, from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.