Update 12:28 p.m.: Weather conditions have improved! The next check will be at T-45 minutes. SpaceX Cape Canaveral launch: T-1 hour until the launch of Crew-9 Update 12:17 p.m.: T-1 hour to go until liftoff. Weather will be assessed before fueling, which happens at around T-38 minutes. SpaceX launch from Florida: NASA SpaceX Crew-9 Update 12:05 p.m.: Launch is currently GO. Weather remains a watch item, yet areas of blue sky are around the Cape area. SpaceX Cape Canaveral launch: NASA Crew-9 launch preparations underway Update 11:52 a.m.: NASA and SpaceX confirm all is well with the Crew and Dragon preparations. Eyes are still on weather. SpaceX launch: Brevard EOC activates ahead of NASA Crew-9 launch from Florida Update 11:45 a.m.: Skies may be dark, but the Brevard EOC is active and ready to support ahead of today's launch. SpaceX NASA Crew-9: First crewed launch from Space Launch Complex 40 Update 11:35 a.m.: Crew-9 will be the first crewed launch from SLC-40. FLORIDA TODAY spoke to John Posey, NASA Crew Dragon engineer. Posey told FLORIDA TODAY that the new crew access arm had a dry run during the last SpaceX space station resupply mission, CRS-30, which launched on March 21. "Of course, that was an ISS mission (CRS-30), and our team looked at all the data associated with that," Posey told FLORIDA TODAY. "The cargo design − its practically the same capsule. It's just reconfigured to hold more cargo versus crew, and the life support systems and such. But all of the processes on the pad, you know, right up to the crew arm, going up to the hatch, and getting in and out for the hatch, for payload ops, all of that is basically the same. So we had that one shakedown run on CRS-30, which was a great preamble in preparation for our crew launch off of this pad." NASA SpaceX Crew-9 launch: Hatch closure Update 11:20 a.m.: Hatch closure is on time. Everything remains good, but weather still remains a watch item. NASA SpaceX Crew-9 weather watch Update 10:58 a.m.: Scattered clouds are over the Cape area, yet precipitation remains a watch item. Launch still remains on track. NASA SpaceX Crew-9 launch still on track Update 10:48 a.m.: Check out this photo from FLORIDA TODAY photographer, Craig Bailey, of Crew-9 as they headed to the launch pad earlier. SpaceX Florida launch: Crew-9 launch Update 10:38 a.m.: The crew are now in launch position. The NASA live steam is posted above and below the countdown clock. SpaceX Crew-9 launch: Crew arrives at launch pad Update 10:18 a.m.: The two members of Crew-9 have arrived at the launch pad and are about the board the rocket. Less than 3 hours until liftoff! Brooke Edwards is a Space Reporter for Florida Today. Contact her at bedwards@floridatoday.com or on X: @brookeofstars. Featured Weekly Ad