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.

Watch SpaceX Crew-10 lift off on a mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is the first leg of the mission to return NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore to Earth after their extended stay on the ISS following Boeing's failed Starliner Spacecraft,

NASA and SpaceX were on track to launch NASA's Crew-10 astronauts to the space station Friday night in a mission that will also aim to return Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.