NASA and SpaceX are ready for the launch of the next ISS crew-rotation mission, Crew-10. The 10th operational crewed mission under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon Endurance will carry a crew of four NASA, JAXA, and Roscosmos astronauts to the orbiting laboratory for a six-month stay as part of Expedition 72/73.

( NewsNation) — SpaceX and NASA are aiming for a launch no earlier than Friday for the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station, which will relieve Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been in space for nine months .

The crew of the infamous Boeing Starliner should be able to return to Earth in a matter of days with the imminent arrival of a replacement mission at the International Space Station. Four spacefarers who are part of a SpaceX mission known as Crew-10 are due to launch into orbit Wednesday night from Florida.

The crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission was expected to launch from the Kennedy Space Center around 7:48 p.m. local time on Wednesday. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will replace the previous crew,