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.

Two US astronauts have begun their journey back to Earth after being stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for more than nine months due to a technical fault with their spacecraft. The two astronauts,

Two NASA astronauts who have been stuck aboard the International Space Station are finally preparing to head back home to their families.