NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning 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.

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are on their way back to Earth, with a splashdown off Florida coast expected late this afternoon.