The U.S. space agency and SpaceX are on a mission to bring home astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. They have been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months.

Their trip to the ISS was only meant to have lasted for one week when Williams and Wilmore blasted off in to space back in June last year. But their time on board the orbital research facility has seen them last until mid-March 2025; more than nine months after leaving the planet.

Reaching orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the newest crew includes NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, both military pilots; and Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov, both former airline pilots. They will spend the next six months at the space station, considered the normal stint, after springing Wilmore and Williams free.