Hague and Gorbunov arrived at the station in late September, on SpaceX's Crew-9 mission. Williams and Wilmore have been in orbit since early June, when they launched on the first crewed mission of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.

With a replacement crew on board the space station, the Starliner astronauts will return to Earth next week, finally ending their marathon mission.

SpaceX Crew-10 mission successfully docked at the International Space Station, setting the stage to rescue two stranded NASA astronauts who have been stuck in space for months.