FILE PHOTO: NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams stand at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on the day of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, June 1, 2024. [Photo/Agencies]
WASHINGTON -- NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) since last June, started journey back to Earth aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft early Tuesday.