NASA and SpaceX will launch the Crew-9 mission next month.

(Reuters) – NASA’s Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will be launched by SpaceX and NASA on Friday, no sooner than August 18.

The news was made one day after SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was approved by the Federal Aviation Administration to launch again after an unusual mid-flight malfunction earlier this month had grounded it.

The first rocket failure in over seven years for a rocket used by the international space industry, the Falcon 9, the most popular rocket in the world, was caused by a single rocket that broke apart in orbit, killing its payload of Starlink satellites. This led to the rocket’s grounding.