NASA and SpaceX have announced plans to launch NASA’s Crew 9 mission to the International Space Station in August.
The move comes a day after the US Federal Aviation Administration approved SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to return to space after a rare mid-flight failure earlier this month that temporarily grounded it.
Falcon 9, the world’s most widely used rocket, was grounded after one of the rockets separated in space and destroyed its payload of Starlink satellites, the first failure in more than seven years of a rocket that the global space industry relies on.