NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Postlaunch News Conference

A postlaunch news conference is hosted at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, following the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission. Participants include Derrol Nail, NASA Communications; NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy; Ken Bowersox, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate; Dana Hutcherson, deputy manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Dina Contella, deputy manager, NASA’s International Space Station Program; Sarah Walker, director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov launched to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from nearby Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 1:17 p.m. EDT on the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.