Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were only meant to be on the ISS for eight days when they blasted off from Earth on 5 June last year.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station 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 Artemis campaign is rapidly advancing the development of Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and serve as a crucial hub for future deep space exploration. Major progress has been made on the HALO habitation module,