A SpaceX Dragon capsule, riding atop one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets, carried the four Crew-10 astronauts — NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,

Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams expected to be gone just a week when they launched on Boeing's first astronaut flight. They hit the nine-month mark earlier this month

The arrival of Crew-10 paves the way for the return of NASA astronauts Williams and Wilmore and their Crew-9 mates Nick Hague (NASA) and Aleksandr Gorbunov (Roscosmos). Williams's and Wilmore's return was delayed due to problems faced by Boeing 's Starliner spacecraft that brought them to ISS in the first place.