WASHINGTON, March 18 — NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early today in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after their faulty Boeing Starliner craft upended what was to be a roughly week-long test mission.

MOSCOW, Nov 19 — The Russian News Agency (TASS) will be the first of all global mass media outlets to open a permanent bureau on the International Space Station (ISS).