The astronauts who flew aboard the Boeing Starliner for its maiden crewed voyage undocked Tuesday morning from the ISS and are on their way home.

Long-delayed Starliner astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams and two space station crewmates braced for a fiery plunge back to Earth on Tuesday to finally close out a repeatedly extended nine-and-a-half-month space odyssey.

Problems with Boeing's Starliner capsule forced Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to stay on the International Space Station far longer than planned. At long last, the astronauts are en route back to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon capsule.