From USA TODAY.

The crew of the infamous Boeing Starliner should be able to return to Earth in a matter of days with the imminent arrival of a replacement mission at the International Space Station.

Four spacefarers who are part of a SpaceX mission known as Crew-10 are due to launch into orbit Wednesday night from Florida. The crew’s scheduled arrival Thursday morning at the space station would then set the stage for their predecessors on the Crew-9 mission to depart.

The Crew-9 mission now includes Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore – the two NASA astronauts who in June flew to the orbital outpost for the doomed maiden crewed voyage of the Starliner spacecraft. That flight test came to an ignominious end when NASA decided the troubled Boeing vehicle wasn’t safe enough to take its crew back.