NASA removed two astronauts from its Crew-9 mission to allow for Williams and Wilmore to join the cohort, and return onboard the SpaceX Dragon − which carries four people at a time. The altered Crew-9 − only Hague and Gorbunov − launched aboard the SpaceX Dragon Freedom in late September.

NASA bumped up the return flight home plans for the SpaceX Crew-9 mission that includes a pair of astronauts who were left behind on the International Space Station by Boeing’s Starliner.

Following a week-long trip to the International Space Station that unexpectedly turned into months, two NASA astronauts are finally set to come back down to Earth this week. Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams are slated to depart from their home of the last nine months in a SpaceX Dragon capsule shortly after 1 a.