SpaceX will launch a crewed NASA mission on Friday to return two astronauts from the International Space Station, after technical issues with Boeing’s spacecraft extended their stay for nine months, leading SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump to suggest they were stranded for “political reasons.

Space X is scheduled to launch its Crew-10 mission craft on Friday at 7:03 p.m. to retrieve two astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months. The launch will take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and comes after the mission was initially set to take place Wednesday but was canceled at the last

After being stranded in space for nine months, two NASA astronauts are getting closer to finally returning to Earth as a new group of astronauts prepare to head to the International Space Station.