While Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s situation is unusual, their return trip will be pretty routine, as they were already slated to fly home on a SpaceX capsule as part of a scheduled crew rotation.

President Trump on Tuesday announced that he has asked SpaceX founder Elon Musk to “go get” two NASA astronauts who have been aboard the International Space Station since June awaiting a return trip to Earth.

Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, who have spent an unexpected eight months on the International Space Station (ISS)—took their first spacewalk together on Thursday. “Here we go,” said Wilmore as he emerged into space,