When the crew gets shuffled just a few weeks before the launch, you have to take some extra steps to make sure they’re trained for all of the technical things that they do during their mission,
Instead of knowing that the team can work well together before they launch, you take a little risk that they might have some bonding difficulties when they get to orbit,
It was hard not to watch that rocket lift off without thinking, ‘That’s my rocket, and that’s my crew,
I can really relate to how they must be feeling, but we’ll fly them,
Thankfully, we had a nice clear window in there,
There’s always something that is changing,
Every crewed launch that I have ever watched has really brought me a lot of emotion. This one today was especially unique,
We know that this launch is a bit unique in moving from the plan for crew members to two,
Congrats to @NASA and @SpaceX on a successful launch, ... We live in an exciting period of exploration and innovation in the stars."
We’ve got a dynamic challenge ahead of us,
In February, Hague, Gorbunov, Wilmore, and Williams will climb aboard Dragon and autonomously undock, depart the space station, and re-enter Earth’s atmosphere. After splashdown off Florida’s coast, a SpaceX recovery vessel will pick up the spacecraft and crew, who then will be helicoptered back to shore,
We’re going to find spots for them to fly,
We always miss our families. I miss my two dogs; I miss my friends,
Crew-9 is the ninth crew rotation mission with SpaceX to the space station under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. They will spend about five months at the orbiting laboratory conducting experiments, research demonstrations, and spacewalks to perform maintenance on the space station,
NASA and SpaceX teams have adjusted the next launch opportunity for NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission to no earlier than 1:17 p.m. EDT, Saturday, Sept. 28, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida due to expected tropical storm conditions in the area,
I don’t know exactly when my launch to space will be, but I know that I will get there,
If we'd had a model that would have predicted what we saw tonight perfectly, yeah, it looks like an easy decision to go say we could have had a crewed fight,
The word that comes to mind for this flight is ‘agility,’
It's a very risky business and things do not always turn out the way you want,
Unbreakable. We did it together."