The Crew 8 mission is due to launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in February 2024.
Dragon Crew 8, composed of NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Grebenkin, is ready to stand the watch on its mission to maintain a continuous human research presence in low-Earth orbit represented by the never-ending path of a Latin numeral 8 with the dragon bowing with respect to the destination, the International Space Station.