Wilmore and Williams will return on the SpaceX Dragon Freedom, the same spacecraft that transported the Crew-9 astronauts to the ISS. The astronauts' return is not a rescue mission, as their extended stay was planned last summer to accommodate crew rotation and space station operations.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who’ve been at the space station since June, will return to Earth along with two Crew-9 astronauts.