A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the ISS, allowing for the anticipated rescue of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore

Sunita Williams return LIVE Updates: Crew-10 will soon enter the ISS and join the Expedition 72 crew of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Don Petitt, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner.

Wilmore and Williams, along with American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, are scheduled to depart the ISS as early as Wednesday.

A pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months on the International Space Station were a step closer to returning home after a replacement crew docked with the orbital outpost.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams need SpaceX to get this relief team to the space station before they can check out.

The Falcon 9 rocket is carrying four astronauts who will replace Wilmore and Williams, both of whom are veteran NASA astronauts and retired U.S. Navy test pilots and were the first to fly Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule to the ISS in June.

After a brief setback on Thursday, astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore can now look forward returning home soon after nine long months of being stranded on the International Space Station (ISS).

Stuck in space for more than 9 months, two NASA astronauts, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, are a step closer to returning home. NASA and SpaceX have launched a long-awaited crew to the International Space Station.