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.

Now that Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are home, ending a 9-month spaceflight, questions remain about the troubled Starliner they rode to orbit.

Astronauts who returned to Earth following a protracted nine-month stay on orbit didn't get overtime pay for the mission, NASA officials said Friday.