That was before NASA and SpaceX, which jointly operate Crew-10, called off the launch because of an issue with the launchpad’s ground system. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the pair of NASA astronauts who in June flew to the station on the maiden crewed voyage of the Starliner,

The quartet will head to the International Space Station for a roughly six-month stay. They'll relieve four other astronauts — NASA's Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who will come back to Earth a few days after Crew-10 docks.