LOS ANGELES — SpaceX's Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft autonomously docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday.

The spacecraft was launched on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the US state of Florida on Saturday, and docked with the ISS at 5:30 pm Eastern Time (2230 GMT) on Sunday.

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The mission, codenamed "Crew-9," carries NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov to ISS. It is NASA's ninth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX.

The Crew-9 members will conduct more than 200 science investigations involving blood clotting studies, moisture effects on plants grown in space, and vision changes in astronauts, according to NASA.

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The spacecraft is expected to return to Earth next February with the Crew-9 astronauts, as well as NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore who flew to the station in June aboard the malfunctioning Boeing Starliner and have been stranded in space ever since.