Zena Cardman, NASA Astronaut: Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov
here in suits that are looking good. Derrol Nail, NASA Communications: There’s
Shannon Walker there with the two crew members, laying out the rules to a card game. Crew-9,
leaving the suit-up room and now on the move inside Astronaut Crew Quarters. Nick Hague, commander of
Crew-9, with his crewmate, Aleksandr Gorbunov. Cardman: So, they’ll have a chance here to say a
few words with those who are closest to them. Nail: This will begin the roughly 20-minute drive
with a full security escort across NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Cardman: You can see them doing the SpaceX flight suit lean-back.
Nail: Walking the crew access arm. Mission Control: Crew have
ingressed the capsule. Veronica Foreman, SpaceX: Side
hatch is closed. Mission Control: Three,
two, one, ignition, full power, and liftoff of Crew-9. Go SpaceX, go Falcon, go NASA.
Foreman: Liftoff of Crew-9, now soaring to the International Space Station. (crosstalk)
Those nine Merlin engines now providing 1.7 million pounds of thrust propelling Falcon
9 and Crew-9 and continuing to get good calls from teams here on the ground.