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Josh Dinner

NASA moves up return date for Boeing Starliner astronauts after swapping SpaceX Dragon spacecraft

Two white spacecraft are seen docked at different orientations on a space station, floating above Earth.

NASA has decided to shuffle around some SpaceX Dragon capsules in order to launch its Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station as soon as possible.

The agency is now targeting March 12 for the launch of Crew-10, which will carry three astronauts and a cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS). The four crewmembers are scheduled to ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to low-Earth orbit, and their seats on that rocket will be aboard the Crew Dragon Endurance capsule, NASA announced Tuesday (Feb. 11). Their arrival to the ISS will also offer relief to the Crew-9 astronauts currently aboard, who were originally slated to return in February.

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