The Boeing Starliner spacecraft successfully completed its uncrewed flight back to Earth, NASA announced overnight. The return ended the Starliner’s most recent flight test months later than intended and leaves its original crew, NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams, aboard the International Space Station until next year.

Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, the NASA astronauts whose mission aboard the International Space Station was extended from about eight days to nine months, are finally set to come home. The return will have to wait a little longer,

Stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will return to Earth after being in space since June 2024 for a mission originally slated for 8 days.