Two Nasa astronauts ‘stranded’ onboard the International Space Station since June 2024 are on their way back to Earth more than nine months after the failure of Boeing’s Starliner capsule scuppered their original week-long mission.
Sunita Williams and Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore are among four astronauts making their return to Earth after four new astronauts arrived at the space station as part of a crew swap. Also onboard the returning capsule are the US astronaut Nick Hague and the Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov
