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Arrival of new space station occupants will allow Starliner’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to return home.

Multinational crew comprises astronauts from the U.S., India, Poland, and Hungary.

Two astronauts, including Starliner crewmember Suni Williams, step out to perform station maintenance.

Since 1999, at least one American astronaut has celebrated the winter holiday season in space.

Space agency provides updates on nine of its commercial partners developing the destinations and technology that will maintain a human presence on orbit beyond this decade.

Space station crew members chow down on smoked turkey, shrimp cocktail, candied yams, and other goodies to ring in the holiday from orbit.

NASA in June tapped the company to build the U.S. deorbit vehicle (DV) that will return the orbital laboratory to Earth in pieces at the end of the decade.

Space agency flatly denies speculation about the Boeing Starliner crewmember’s ‘gaunt’ look, driven by recent photos.

Astronauts have been voting from the International Space Station since 1997 and have cast ballots in every U.S. presidential election since 2004, except one.

Following splashdown, crewmembers were flown to a local hospital, where one remains in ‘stable condition,’ NASA says.