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.

All of the 11 astronauts now aboard the station gathered for a short ceremony after the docking more than 260 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. The arrival of the mission's crew signals a significant milestone for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams,

The delayed mission has reached the space station, the hatch has opened and soon the two astronauts who've been "stuck" in space can return home.