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.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 members are aboard the Dragon capsule spacecraft in Florida for Wednesday night's mission to reach the International Space Station and retrieve astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.

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