Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who have been in space since last June, are one step closer to coming home after NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 departed for the ISS.

SpaceX and NASA have launched a mission to bring back US astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station (ISS), where they have been stranded for nine months. The lift-off took place at 7:03 ET on Friday,

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.