SpaceX is launching its ninth crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. Crew-9 Dragon will launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Aboard Crew Dragon Endurance will be NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. They are slated to dock with the forward port of the Harmony module about a day later and join the Expedition 71 crew.

This is a two-person crew because Crew-9 will return in February 2025 with the Starliner Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

After thruster failures with the Starliner, NASA opted to return the spacecraft uncrewed.