SpaceX launches 20 Starlink internet satellites from California (video, photos)
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— SpaceX launches Crew-8 astronaut mission to International Space Station for NASA (video)
The Starlink launch was part of a typically busy week for SpaceX. Elon Musk's company aims to launch the Crew-9 astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA on Saturday (Sept. 28), sending it aloft via a Falcon 9 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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Crew-9 isn't your typical ISS astronaut mission. It will launch with two crewmembers instead of the usual four, because it will take home to Earth two people already living on the ISS — NASA's Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who arrived in June aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule.
Starliner suffered thruster issues on its way to the ISS, and NASA decided to bring the spacecraft home uncrewed as a result. Williams and Wilmore will come home with the two Crew-9 astronauts — NASA's Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov, of Russia's space agency Roscosmos — aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule "Freedom" in February 2025.
Editor's note: This story was updated at 12:30 a.m. ET on Sept. 24 with news of successful launch and rocket landing.
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