# At long last, Starliner astronauts prepare to depart ISS at long last: 'We're coming'

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore joined Crew-9 member Nick Hague from the ISS to talk Tuesday about their upcoming return to Earth.

## International Space Station
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### At long last, Starliner astronauts prepare to depart ISS at long last: 'We're coming'

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore joined Crew-9 member Nick Hague from the ISS to talk Tuesday about their upcoming return to Earth.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the crew of the doomed Boeing Starliner spacecraft, are ready to finally come home.

When the two veteran NASA astronauts made it to the International Space Station in June on a mission to test a vehicle intended to one day join the SpaceX Dragon in transporting NASA astronauts to orbit.

Their return home, however, was delayed when NASA uncovered technical issues with Boeing's spacecraft that ultimately forced the space agency to send the Starliner back to Earth in early September without its crew.

The SpaceX Dragon selected as the vehicle to instead bring Williams and Wilmore back to Earth has since been at the station since late September.

"Looking forward, we're going to hand the baton to Crew-10 and we are going to return to Earth at the end of a successful long-duration mission," Hague said Tuesday.

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