The replacements for stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived early Sunday morning. NASA says Williams and Wilmore will return home next week after nine months in space.

A pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months on the International Space Station were a step closer to returning home after a replacement crew docked with the orbital outpost.

Sunita Williams return LIVE Updates: Crew-10 will soon enter the ISS and join the Expedition 72 crew of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Don Petitt, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner.