With the Crew-10 ISS docking, NASA is looking to March 19 at 4 a.m. EDT, for the departure of the Crew 9 Dragon designated Freedom that launched and docked to the ISS over Sept. 28-29 with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov and two empty seats needed for the return of Wilmore and Williams to Earth.

NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos astronauts join the ISS after a successful SpaceX Dragon mission, welcomed by Expedition 72 crew.

Reaching orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the newest crew includes NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, both military pilots; and Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov, both former airline pilots. They will spend the next six months at the space station, considered the normal stint, after springing Wilmore and Williams free.

The Crew-10 mission is a routine part of NASA's crew rotation schedule that ensures continuous scientific research and maintenance at the International Space Station. The Crew-10 mission was launched on March 15 at 7:03PM ET,

A launch pad problem has forced a flight delay to replace NASA's two stuck astronauts. The new crew needs to get to the International Space Station before Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams can head home after nine months in orbit.

The two astronauts who crewed the Boeing Starliner greeted their replacements, who docked at the International Space Station.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Nick Hague, Barry Wilmore, and Donald Pettit unbox Thanksgiving meals, from the International Space Station (ISS), in this screen grab taken from a handout video, released on November 26,