After the vehicle that brought them to space departed for Earth without them, the two Boeing Starliner astronauts finally got an up-close look at the spacecraft that will bring them home next year.

The SpaceX capsule will eventually bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the NASA astronauts who piloted the Boeing Starliner test flight.

After the SpaceX Crew-9 docking, Expedition 72 members undertook tasks from exercise routines to scientific research and started preparations for the return of Crew-8 after over six months in space. Following Sunday’s arrival of the SpaceX Crew-9 mission,