Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are heading home after about nine months at the International Space Station. The two veteran NASA astronauts were only supposed to be in space for a little more than a week.

Two US astronauts have begun their journey back to Earth after being stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for more than nine months due to a technical fault with their spacecraft. The two astronauts,

Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore, 61, and Sunita ‘Suni’ Williams, 59, only planned to be floating in the endless abyss of space for a week. Eight days tops. But the two Nasa astronauts have been stuck in the International Space Station (ISS) since June after a raft of technical hiccups.