Hague and Gorbunov rode up to the station aboard Freedom in late September, on the launch of SpaceX's Crew-9 mission. Williams and Wilmore, on the other hand, reached the ISS on the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule, which lifted off in early June.

After a long nine months, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni William finally hitched a ride back from the International Space Station.

The Dragon spacecraft with four Crew-9 members departs the ISS after undocking from the Harmony module’s space-facing port. Credit: NASA+ HOUSTON—NASA's Crew-9 Dragon mission capsule undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) early March 18,