Welcome to the SpaceX Crew-9 Launch Discussion & Updates Thread!

Time to pick up Butch and Suni!

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2024-09-28, 17:17:21 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2024-09-28, 13:17:21 (ET) | |Docking scheduled for (UTC)| | | Mission | Crew-9 | | Launch site | LC-40, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. | | Booster | B1085-2 | | Landing | LZ-1 | | Dragon | C212-4 (Freedom) | | Commander | Nick Hague 🇺🇸| | Mission Specialist | Aleksandr Gorbunov 🇷🇺| | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and docking to the ISS |

Note: This mission is launching with two empty seats for returning Barry E. Wilmore 🇺🇸 and Sunita Williams 🇺🇸 from the ISS.

Webcasts

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| | NASA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKXtysRx0b4 | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvMUVxflvxI | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eKnPK5RswM | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLZpj_rtzEo | Everyday Astronaut | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X67-Y-jJx40 | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnQO8rN4nq8 | SpaceX | | The Space Devs |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight, c/SpaceX, and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 1st crewed Dragon launch from SLC-40

☑️ 45th launch from SLC-40 this year

☑️ 11 day turnaround for this pad

☑️ 46th landing on LZ-1

☑️ 24th consecutive successful Falcon 9 launch (if successful)

☑️ 354th Falcon Family Booster landing

☑️ 93rd Falcon 9 mission this year, 379th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 94th SpaceX mission of 2024, 394th mission overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 96th SpaceX launch this year, 408th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

• NextSpaceflight mission page
• SpaceX mission website

SpaceX Crew-9 is the ninth operational crewed rotation mission of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. The original intended crew comprised Commander Zena Cardman, Pilot Nick Hague, Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov.

NASA has since decided to launch Crew-9 with only 2 crew members to allow the 2 Starliner CFT crew to return on Crew-9. The mission's commander will be Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov will be a mission specialist.

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