Overview

• SpaceX's Crew-10 spacecraft docked at the International Space Station early on March 16, delivering four new astronauts to replace the current crew.
• NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, have spent nine months aboard the ISS due to technical issues with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
• The Crew-10 team includes NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, who will remain on the ISS for six months.
• Wilmore and Williams, along with two other astronauts, are scheduled to return to Earth no earlier than March 19, pending weather conditions for a splashdown off Florida's coast.
• The extended mission has drawn global attention, with the astronauts conducting research, maintenance, and spacewalks while awaiting their replacement crew.