NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will return to Earth this week after spending almost nine months on the International Space Station (ISS). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has confirmed that the Indian-origin astronaut and Wilmore will be sent back to the earth with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft,

Wilmore and Williams have been stranded on the ISS for nine months after reaching there in June last year. They were supposed to stay there for about a week. The astronauts were transported from Earth to the ISS aboard Boeings Starliner spacecraft.