Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are nonetheless in house regardless of the current launch of a return capsule from the International Space Station.

Even although the astronauts have been at the ISS since June—when their Boeing Starliner skilled tools failure, forcing NASA to increase their eight-day mission indefinitely—they didn’t catch a trip again to Earth on the company’s SpaceX Crew-8 craft, which efficiently touched down Oct. 25.

That’s as a result of the Crew-8 flight was already assigned to NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps in addition to Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, who had all been on the ISS since March—roughly three months longer than Williams and Wilmore.

The four-person crew was a part of an everyday crew rotation on the ISS and had lengthy been assigned to the Crew-8 flight. In reality, their mission dwelling had already been delayed a number of instances as a consequence of unhealthy climate round Florida, stopping the departure of the capsule. 

Overall, they spent a complete of 232 days aboard the house station.