Crew-1 will be the first full length astronaut mission for SpaceX, with four people launching in a Crew Dragon capsule to spend six months on the International Space Station.

The timeline for Crew-1 also means that capsule will be docked until late April, overlapping with the SpaceX Crew-2 mission set to launch in spring 2021.

NASA and SpaceX plan to launch the company's first full mission with astronauts no earlier than Oct. 23, the agency announced on Friday.

Known as Crew-1, the mission will see three U.S. astronauts and one Japanese astronaut launch in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. There they will spend six months at the space station, conducting research and performing tasks.

The Crew Dragon capsule will carry NASA's Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and JAXA's Soichi Noguchi. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will lift the capsule arrived in Florida in July, to prepare for the Crew-1 launch.