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.

NASA's stuck astronauts are heading home after nine months on the International Space Station. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams boarded a SpaceX capsule late Monday night, along with NASA Astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.