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US astronauts stranded in space for nine months set to return to Earth on Tuesday

# After nine months stranded on the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will return to Earth tomorrow. The duo, who were originally due to be on the ISS for only eight days, got stuck on the station in June last year after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft had propulsion issues and was deemed unfit to fly them back to Earth. Wilmore and Williams will be transported with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft, which arrived at the ISS yesterday.