The American Aerospace Agency (NASA) announced that SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission team has begun their space journey to the International Space Station (ISS) and will return to Earth in February 2025 with 2 astronauts stranded in space. According to a written statement from NASA, it was reported that the Dragon capsule for SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission was launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida with the Falcon 9 rocket. The statement indicated that NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov from the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will conduct over 200 scientific investigations during their 5-month mission on the ISS, focusing on areas such as blood clotting, humidity in space-grown plants, and changes in astronauts’ vision in space. Following the completion of the Crew-9 mission, it was noted that the two astronauts who have been stranded at the space station since early June due to the malfunction of Boeing’s Starliner capsule will return to Earth in February 2025 with Hague and Gorbunov. Boeing’s Starliner capsule, which carried 2 NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, was launched into space for the first time on June 5 after two delays. Despite inspections revealing a helium leak in the capsule, the source of the issue could not be identified, leading to the return of the spacecraft to Earth being postponed 4 times. NASA decided that bringing the 2 astronauts back with the faulty capsule would be too risky, thus announcing that the astronauts would remain in space until February 2025. Therefore, what was supposed to be a 1-week test flight for the astronauts will last over 8 months. NASA later announced that the Starliner capsule returned to Earth without a crew.