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

The arrival brought much-needed relief to NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stuck in orbit for over nine months. The docking was broadcast live, showing the Crew Dragon astronauts warmly greeting their fellow crew members in zero gravity.

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked with the ISS, bringing much-needed relief to astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore after being stranded in orbit for over nine months. The Crew-10 team,

SpaceX's Crew-10 mission has successfully launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03PM Eastern on March 14. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov are onboard and will join the ISS crew after the spacecraft docks with the orbiting lab at 11:30PM Eastern time on March 15.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams need SpaceX to get this relief team to the space station before they can check out.

The Falcon 9 rocket is carrying four astronauts who will replace Wilmore and Williams, both of whom are veteran NASA astronauts and retired U.S. Navy test pilots and were the first to fly Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule to the ISS in June.