SpaceX and NASA said on July 26 that they plan to launch the Space agency Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than August 18. The announcement comes a day after the Federal Aviation Administration authorized SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to return to space after a rare mid-flight failure earlier this month grounded it.

About Falcon 9

The Falcon 9, the The most used rocket in the worldwas grounded after a rocket broke up in space and doomed its payload of Starlink satellites, the first failure in more than seven years of a rocket on which the global space industry depends.

Ninth crew rotation mission to the ISS

NASA and SpaceX will embark on their ninth crew rotation mission to the ISS, with NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, Nick Hague, Stephanie Wilson and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunovlaunched aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onto a Falcon 9 rocket.