NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - SEPTEMBER 28: (EDITOR’S NOTE: This Handout image/clip was provided by a third-party organization and may not adhere to Getty Images’ editorial policy.) In this NASA handout, A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard, Saturday, September. 28, 2024, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission is the ninth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. Hague and Gorbunov launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin a six-month mission aboard the orbital outpost. (Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images)