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Tariq Malik

UNBELIEVABLE: Spacex nasa go for 1st astronaut launch to iss from cape canaveral space force station pad - The Untold Story

A black and white SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fires its engines in a test on a launch pad for Crew-9.

NASA cleared its next astronaut flight to the International Space Station for launch on Friday (Sept. 27), a weekend liftoff that will help return two Boeing Starliner astronauts home and break in a new launch pad for SpaceX. 

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft will launch two Crew-9 astronauts, NASA veteran Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexandr Gorbunov, to the ISS from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Sept. 28. Liftoff is set for 1:17 p.m. EDT (1517 GMT). 

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