The SpaceX capsule will eventually bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the NASA astronauts who piloted the Boeing Starliner test flight.

The SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon will dock at the International Space Station Sunday afternoon. After a successful launch on Saturday, the two-man crew will be docking at the ISS. The Dargon spacecraft, which is supporting this mission, previously flew the Crew-4, Ax-2, and Ax-3 missions to and from the International Space Station.

After the SpaceX Crew-9 docking, Expedition 72 members undertook tasks from exercise routines to scientific research and started preparations for the return of Crew-8 after over six months in space. Following Sunday’s arrival of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission,

After the vehicle that brought them to space departed for Earth without them, the two Boeing Starliner astronauts finally got an up-close look at the spacecraft that will bring them home next year.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has confirmed that it grounded SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket following an investigation into why the rocket's second stage missed its deorbit target zone after the Crew-9 launch from Cape Canaveral over the weekend.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is grounded again after the vehicle’s second stage did not come down in the expected area of the ocean, following an otherwise successful mission that delivered a Dragon capsule and its crew to orbit.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said SpaceX must investigate why the second stage of its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket malfunctioned after a NASA astronaut mission on Saturday, grounding the rocket for the third time in three months.

NASA engineers are running checks to solve the mystery of why the Falcon 9's engine failed to perform a routine maneuver to lower the rocket's altitude.