The Starliner saga is a step closer to its end with the launch of a SpaceX vehicle that will relieve the astronauts who flew on the Boeing spacecraft.

NASA and SpaceX are proceeding with plans to launch the space agency's Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on Friday, March 14 at 7:03 p.m. EDT (2303 GMT), the U.S. agency said in a blog post on Thursday.

NASA will livestream the launch Friday night of Crew-10, which will in part replace the Starliner astronauts at the International Space Station.

Watch SpaceX Crew-10 lift off on a mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is the first leg of the mission to return NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore to Earth after their extended stay on the ISS following Boeing's failed Starliner Spacecraft,

The mission would allow Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, two NASA astronauts, to return to Earth. Their brief scheduled visit to the space station last June was unexpectedly stretched to more than nine months.