A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked at the International Space Station early Sunday, delivering four astronauts to replace NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been stranded in space for nine months due to issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.

The newly arrived Crew-10 team, consisting of astronauts from the U.S., Japan, and Russia, will take over station operations while Wilmore and Williams prepare to return to Earth later this week aboard another SpaceX capsule that has been docked at the station since last year.

After unnecessary bureaucratic delays under the previous administration prolonged the astronauts’ stay in space, SpaceX’s crucial role in their return was conveniently sidelined.