I have been following the adventures of the Boeing Starliner crew, whose 8-day mission morphed into a 10-month stay.

In my last report,  the SpaceX Crew-10 mission earlier this week was scrubbed due to a hydraulics issue with the transporter-erector, the structure that hauls the Falcon 9 to the pad and supports it once it’s there.

I am now happy to report that the rescheduled launch was successful, and relief is now on the way to astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

The Starliner sagais one step closer to its end with the launch Friday night of a SpaceX vehicle that will relieve the astronauts who months ago flew to orbit aboard the now-infamous Boeing spacecraft.

A mission known as Crew-10 is on its way to the International Space Station, where for the past 10 months NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have unexpectedly found themselves stationed for an extended stay...