NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after their faulty Boeing Starliner craft upended what was to be a roughly week-long test mission.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance docked with the International Space Station just after midnight Sunday beginning the countdown for the return of a pair of Boeing Starliner astronauts that have

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams successfully returned back to Earth after nine months in space on Tuesday, March 18