Reaching orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the newest crew includes NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, both military pilots; and Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov, both former airline pilots. They will spend the next six months at the space station, considered the normal stint, after springing Wilmore and Williams free.

NASA is considering another test flight of Boeing's Starliner vehicle, with or without a crew on board. The Starliner saga may not be over just yet. Despite a failed test flight that left a crew stranded in space,