With a fresh crew now aboard the International Space Station, the four fliers they are replacing — including long-delayed Starliner astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams — undocked early Tuesday for a long-awaited return to Earth,

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 now that a replacement crew has arrived at the International Space Station.