NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson missed their planned SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the ISS due to Boeing’s Starliner issues, which left colleagues Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams stranded. Wilmore and Williams took their seats instead. Cardman expressed a strong connection to the mission despite not being on board. The Crew Dragon carried NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, with Hague having prior ISS experience and Gorbunov on his first flight. Cardman and Wilson’s absence was symbolically filled with ballast.