Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore on their way back to Earth
After nine months, NASA's two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday
The capsule undocked in the wee hours of Tuesday and aimed for a splashdown off the Florida coast by early evening
Images released by NASA showed Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams bidding farewell to the ISS with two other astronauts
The two went to the ISS onboard Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule on June 5 for a week
Their stay was extended for nine months after technical issues forced NASA to send it back empty
Williams and Wilmore were transferred to SpaceX, pushing their homecoming into February
The Space X capsule left ISS with NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbunov
Wilmore and Williams spent nine months in ISS conducting experiments, fixing equipment and spacewalking together