Only one NASA astronaut is in space right now. Help is on the way.

A medical issue at the International Space Station in January required a swift, premature return of four astronauts, leaving just one American in space for the past month. That will change when the Crew-12 astronauts launch as early as Friday morning from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The crew — NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Sophie Adenot — along with European Space Agency astronaut Jack Hathaway and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, will join Chris Williams, who arrived at the station on