Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will finally return to Earth after nine months 'stuck' in space. The NASA astronauts are awaiting rescue by SpaceX.

NASA's stuck astronauts are heading home now that a replacement crew has arrived at the International Space Station.

NASA removed two astronauts from its Crew-9 mission to allow for Williams and Wilmore to join the cohort, and return onboard the SpaceX Dragon − which carries four people at a time. The altered Crew-9 − only Hague and Gorbunov − launched aboard the SpaceX Dragon Freedom in late September.