NASA Astronauts Wilmore & Williams to Return After 9 Months in Space

After spending over nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are preparing for their return to Earth.

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Director of the Space Applications Centre (SAC), Nilesh M Desai explained the process behind their return. "The crew mission is sent every 6 months under NASA's ISS program. So, the 10th crew mission has reached there now... They will return to Earth after over 9 months," Desai said. He highlighted the distinction between crew missions and cargo missions. "NASA keeps sending cargo missions regularly... but it has no provision for bringing astronauts back." The provision is possible only in the case of a crew mission," he said. On Friday, SpaceX and NASA launched a mission to bring back U