SpaceX resumes astronaut launches on Aug. 18 with Crew-9 mission to ISS

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The ninth crew rotation for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off on Aug. 18 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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If the Crew-9 are going to launch on SpaceX to the ISS on the 18th of August then the troubled Boeing Starliner will have to depart before then, as the ISS US segment only has two docking ports, both of which are currently occupied (by the Crew-8 Dragon capsule and the Boeing Starliner respectively). Crew-8 will stay on board the ISS until well after the Crew-9 arrives to give a handover period, so it looks like the Starliner will have to depart to allow the Crew-9 dragon to dock.