NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after their faulty Boeing Starliner craft upended what was to be a roughly week-long test mission.

There was sheer joy as the spacecraft that will carry stranded astronauts docks at the international space station. It's the first step in bringing home astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. Through their 9-month ordeal as space castaways,