 They say they're sure they're going to get back to Earth safely. Two astronauts who should have been back on Earth weeks ago. The two astronauts who took a Boeing space capsule to the International Space Station are confident they can safely return to Earth. Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams were supposed to return on the Boeing Starliner June 14th, but Wilmore points out they had some failures. We lost an RCS jet, and then we lost another one, and then you could tell the thrust, the control, the capability was degraded.