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.

The three astronauts and one cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-10 mission are on their way to the International Space Station. Liftoff went smoothly, at 7:03 p.m. ET on Friday, when a Falcon 9 rocket lifted the Dragon spacecraft,

NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov smiled and waved to SpaceX recovery personnel as they were sent off for return to Earth medical checks. Soon they would be back on solid land for the first time in many months.