Hague and Gorbunov rode up to the station aboard Freedom in late September, on the launch of SpaceX's Crew-9 mission. Williams and Wilmore, on the other hand, reached the ISS on the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule, which lifted off in early June.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore got a warm welcome from a pod of dolphins when they returned from nine months in space.