The Boeing Starliner spacecraft successfully completed its uncrewed flight back to Earth, NASA announced overnight. The return ended the Starliner’s most recent flight test months later than intended and leaves its original crew, NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Suni Williams, aboard the International Space Station until next year.

Their trip to the ISS was only meant to have lasted for one week when Williams and Wilmore blasted off in to space back in June last year. But their time on board the orbital research facility has seen them last until mid-March 2025; more than nine months after leaving the planet.