The eight-day stay that turned into 9 1/2 months is finally set to end for the pair of astronauts who arrived to the International Space Station on the beleaguered Boeing Starliner. NASA

Space Team live coverage of the Starlink and the splashdown, visit floridatoday.com/space starting about 90 minutes before each event.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft last June. The duo were flying the capsule's first crewed flight test, which was expected to stay in orbit for about 10 days before flying the pair back to Earth.