Crew-10 astronauts will board SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to International Space Station, which sets up the return to Earth of Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams

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.