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SpaceX's Crew-9 astronaut flight for NASA launches this week. Here's how it turned into a rescue mission

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NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov will launch Thursday ( Sept. 26 ) on SpaceX's Crew-9 mission.

The mission will be the first crewed launch to take off from Space Launch Complex-40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida .

Two other NASA astronauts, Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson , were supposed to be aboard as well.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are stuck on the ISS without a dedicated ride home.

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