Two long-delayed Starliner astronauts, Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams, returned to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Tuesday to finally close out a repeatedly extended 286-day odyssey in space.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are making a 17-hour journey from the International Space Station and will splash down near Florida this evening

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, are finally on their way back home to Houston. Wilmore and Williams left the International Space Station in a SpaceX capsule early Tuesday with two others and are due to splash down in the evening off the Florida coast, weather permitting.