Stay tuned. NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station already hosted 66 launches through the end of the September, capped by the high-profile Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station.

Because NASA rotates space station crews approximately every six months, this newly launched flight with two empty seats reserved for Wilmore and Williams won’t return until late February. Officials said there wasn’t a way to bring them back earlier on SpaceX without interrupting other scheduled missions.

Astronaut Nick Hague has become the first Space Force Guardian to launch into space following the successful SpaceX Dragon Crew-9 launch to the International Space Station (ISS) this weekend. The US Space Force (USSF) Colonel traveled alongside Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov and two empty seats,