On Monday, a spacecraft arrived with replacements at the international space station ISS to rescue the stranded Nasa Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
Other astronauts have been out on longer space assignments, but no one has previously had to endure so much uncertainty and have had to extend their mission as much as the two Americans.
Williams and Wilmore went up to ISS in June, and would from the beginning only spend about a week there. But the problems lined up and the return journey had to be postponed several times.
Now they are on their way to Florida in a Space X space.
“We will miss you, but have a fantastic trip home,” Anne McClain greeted from the space station when they left.
If everything goes according to plan, the capsule will land in the sea outside Florida tonight, Swedish time.