The US astronauts stranded on the International Space Station are home at last — more than nine months after their days-long jaunt into orbit turned into a headline-grabbing space odyssey. Butch Wilmore,

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to arrive home on SpaceX after spending 9 months on the ISS after Boeing’s Starliner was sent back empty.

On Tuesday, two NASA astronauts who had been in orbit since June, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, splashed down in calm, azure waters off the coast of the Florida Panhandle, concluding a saga that had captivated the country since last summer.