Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are returning to Earth after their week-long test flight turned into nine months on the International Space Station.

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.