🔴FULL REPLAY: SpaceX Launches Crew-9 - Two Astronauts to the International Space Station

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.

Instantaneous launch window: September 28th at 1:17:20PM EDT (17:17:20 UTC)

Mission: F9 launch of Crew-9 to the International Space Station
Launch location: Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Earth.
Target orbit: Low Earth Orbit, 51.6 degree inclination orbit
Booster: B1085-2; 39d 3h 57min turnaround
Booster history: Starlink Group 10-5
Booster recovery: Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1)
Capsule: C212-4 (Freedom); 232d 3h 47min turnaround
Capsule history: Crew-4, Axiom-2, Axiom-3
Capsule recovery: Megan or Shannon
Rocket trajectory: Northeast hugging the east coast of the United States
Stubby nozzle: NO
Mission Commander: Nick Hague (United States) - 3rd spaceflight
Mission Specialist: Aleksandr Gorbunov (Russia) - 1st spaceflight
Stats:
· SpaceX's 96th launch of the year and the 9th launch of the month
· SpaceX's 207th launch from SLC-40 and the first with crew.
· 45th landing on LZ-1 out of 46 attempts
· 46th orbital flight of a Dragon spacecraft and 15th human spaceflight by SpaceX
· This mission will bring up to 56 the total of people sent by SpaceX to orbit.

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[pipersall]

Gosh it sure would have been nice when you showed the Spacex/NASA commentators that we could have heard them. Also thank you for stopping talking at least for the 10 second countdown. You guys are all great and you are so good at what you do but you need to find a better balance between what you are offering and what the launch providers themselves are offering. Its THEIR launch, right? And you are just covering it? For the life of me I cant understand why you dont blend in with the great Spacex coverage on X and talk around all the neat stuff Spacex and NASA are saying instead of talking over it. Anyway, thank you for your coverage and all you do to bring this content to us.

[KINGaday]

I missed it. Thanks for the video. I had an emergency. My parents were in a car accident. I totally forgot after that.

[VarriskKhanaar]

"We'll be quiet.." and continues to talk.

[bluewater_]

4:22:02 Where does that second stage engine go ? Does it become space junk forever or eventually return to earth ? Living on the space coast, I always hear about the boosters returning but never that part.

Lots of debris floating around out there today 4:23:00, noticed it in quite a few shots but no one mentioned it. Cool stuff

[MrKellymcilrath]

Thanks for the awesome Crew -9 Launch coverage NSF!!!!

[Jossy]

Information guy is great & chatter box (“ "We'll be quiet…” and continues to talk”.) Thank god for the mute button.

[TommyTech]

4:19:20 was that an Unidentified flying object in the background, suddenly changing direction or something else? It wasn't ice floating away, and the direction adjusters firing as the rest of the image didn't change or rotate.

[Mike-tvrk]

The reason they use that rock on the causeway is because it has low friction properties for when the tracks have to turn. It's like turning on ball bearings but much cheaper

[jjgordon]

Space X is great !!, Go Elon hope we can get the starships launched.

[Perktube]

It's always the first stage re-entry that gets me. I grew up seing rockets going up, and everything but the capsule or payload would be expendable. Kids who grow up with today's space ventures will not be able to appreciate how special it is.😊

[mre]

At 4:19:23 what was the spinning object through the top left corner of the shot?

[LunnarisLP]

ngl these comments here are a bit weird. A bunch of guys who could watch the spacex coverage but instead watch the NASASpaceflight coverage, but then complain why you guys are talking. That being said balance between letting the launch roll and giving information out is important of course and surely there is a lot of time to talk about everything before and after the important parts of the launch.
Either way I think you guys usually hit a decent balance and honestly with Falcon launches i no longer care so much. We have seen and heard them thousand times. With Starship different story :D

[MarsOzzie]

Wondering SpaceX sent Boeing a bill for 2 SpaceX crew taken off and 2 starliner crew added on. $400 million?

[zapfanzapfan]

Yepp, 5 hours just flew by.

Hope for TARDIS zero-g indicator next time 👮📦

[slowerpicker]

Honestly the hosts’ jibber jabber in the last 90 seconds, talking over Mission Control, is just irritating.

[Mike-tvrk]

It's bonkers that they strap in 3 hours before launch. That is worse anticipation than queueing for any rollercoaster!

[pipersall]

By the way, all your tracking cam shots and pad shots are really great. Thank you.

[BobTaile]

FIVE HOURS!! You lot need to get jobs!

[bobsemple]

What is the purpose of the tall towers surrounding the main launch tower?

[Mike-tvrk]

Great coverage. So depressing that the people in charge are so childish that they can't make a Russian a pilot. How immature and tragic. These are the people at the Pinnacle of humanity and even my child can see how ridiculous that is. There should just be a set budget that increases every year. And Congress and all politicians should be left out of it.