SpaceX Crew-8 Mission Logo (Zap the Wall)

NASA astronaut Michael Barratt 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, February 26, 2024, ahead of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission. Crew-8 is the eighth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket that will send Barratt and NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The mission is scheduled to launch at 12:04 a.m. EST on Friday, March 1, from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A.