Only two of the original four members of SpaceX Crew-9’s mission to the International Space Station arrived to Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, making room on their future ride home next year for the pair of NASA astronauts left behind by Boeing’s Starliner.

Crew-9's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off at 2:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

A two-person crew, instead of the usual four that fly on a SpaceX Crew Dragon, are about to launch to the International Space Station.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission is now scheduled to launch Sept. 26 for its journey to the International Space Station, pushing back its previous start date by two days. The agency announced Wednesday the new target date,

The launch of SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission has been delayed until at least Sept. 26 to give teams a chance to address prelaunch operations and hardware processing as it will take off from a site not previously used for crewed missions.