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The two crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station. This is the first human spaceflight mission launched from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, and the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the space station. Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission launched at 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, for a science expedition aboard the International Space Station.Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowu7GVCw:productID":"","_crdt_document":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[13205,13206,13207,13208,11728,12827,467,13204,11725],"class_list":["post-6654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space","tag-cape-canaveral-space-force-station","tag-commercial-crew-program","tag-crew-dragon-endeavour","tag-crew-dragon-pad-abort-test","tag-human-spaceflight","tag-nasa","tag-spacex","tag-spacex-crew-9","tag-spacex-dragon-2"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NASA___SpaceX_Launch.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NASA___SpaceX_Launch-300x169.jpg","large":"https:\/\/mpelembe.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/NASA___SpaceX_Launch.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLiftoff! 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