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With Crew-9's launch already pushed to Saturday, NASA and SpaceX are taking precautions to keep facilities and employees safe.

Crew-9 is NASA's next astronaut rotation aboard the International Space Station, and the 10th overall flight of NASA astronauts by SpaceX — including Demo-2 and Crews 1-9. SpaceX flies NASA astronaut crews to the space station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

SpaceX launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home but not until next year. The capsule rocketed into orbit to fetch the test pilots whose Boeing spacecraft returned to Earth empty earlier this month because of safety concerns.

NASA's Crew-9 looks different from the original plan. Now only an astronaut and a cosmonaut will launch onboard the SpaceX Dragon. Here's why.

NASA astronaut & Russian colleague arrive at International Space Station on SpaceX Dragon ship NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov arrive at the International Space Station on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.