The crew-swap mission will enable NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to return to Earth from the International Space Station.

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.

The NASA astronauts who crewed the Boeing Starliner could be on their way home sooner than expected due to weather conditions off the Florida coast. Big Tech companies are heavily invested in quantum computing development.