NASA removed two astronauts from its Crew-9 mission to allow for Williams and Wilmore to join the cohort, and return onboard the SpaceX Dragon − which carries four people at a time. The altered Crew-9 − only Hague and Gorbunov − launched aboard the SpaceX Dragon Freedom in late September.

A SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts.

Former NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, speaking to Washingtonian, explained that astronauts receive their standard salary without overtime benefits. “There is some small amount of money per day for incidentals that they end up being legally obligated to pay you,

The Crew-10 mission is a long-awaited first step to bring Wilmore and Williams back to Earth. The duo are scheduled to depart the ISS on Wednesday as early as 4 a.m. ET (0800 GMT), along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.

Crew-10 pilot Nichole Ayers spearheaded the process of creating the patch on behalf of her crewmates, commander Anne McClain of NASA and mission specialists Takuya Onishi of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Kirill Peskov with Russia's federal space corporation Roscosmos.

NASA's stuck astronauts are heading home now that a replacement crew has arrived at the International Space Station

The two astronauts who crewed the Boeing Starliner greeted their replacements, who docked at the International Space Station.

After more than nine months in space, relentless media coverage and a political firestorm, two NASA astronauts who captured the world’s attention for being stuck in orbit will soon be coming home.