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SpaceX, NASA to launch Crew-9 mission next month

FAA cleared SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket to return to space. The Falcon 9 was grounded after one rocket broke apart in space and doomed its payload of Starlink satellites, the first failure in more than seven years. 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 Gorbunov, launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket.