Timeline of Boeing's Starliner mission that left NASA astronauts aboard ISS for 9 months

Timeline of Boeing's Starliner mission that left NASA astronauts aboard ISS for 9 months

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were scheduled to return to Earth on June 14.

The NASA astronauts who have remained in space for months longer than planned are finally headed back to Earth.
Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams performed the first astronaut-crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2024.
However, what was supposed to be a mission lasting about one week turned into a nine-month stay aboard the ISS due to several issues with Starliner.

Issues with the spacecraft prompted NASA and Boeing to send Starliner back to Earth uncrewed and keep Wilmore and Williams onboard the ISS until early 2025, when they would return home on a SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft once Crew-10 arrived at the ISS.
SpaceX Crew-9 is finally set to undock in the early hours of Tuesday, March 18, and deorbit in the afternoon, returning to Earth in the evening.