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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

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Crew Dragon set for first Cape Canaveral launch to space station

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Crew 9 commander Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov are scheduled for liftoff from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:17 p.m. EDT Saturday .

Forecasters predicted a 55 percent chance of acceptable weather along Florida 's Space Coast .

The Crew Dragon "Freedom ," making its fourth flight, will be released to fly on its own.

Crew 9 crew: Hague, Gorbunov , Wilmore and Williams .

Hague: "We're flying without a pilot, and so fundamentally, the commander is responsible for keeping the crew safe, keeping the vehicle safe and making sure we get the mission done" The crew will leave the space station with a normal complement of seven full-time crew members.

Gorbunov is the fifth Russian to fly aboard a SpaceX ferry ship.

"All four of us remain dedicated to the success of this mission, and Stephanie and I look forward to flying when the time is right," he says.

"As we are talking in front of you right now, there are hundreds of people from NASA and SpaceX working on, preparing the launch pad".

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