Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, dubbed as the 'stranded astronauts', are due to be back from the International Space Station (ISS) on March 16 after spending more than nine months in space. The two will return inside a SpaceX spacecraft that is already docked to the ISS.

We'll be coming home, riding the plasma, splashing in the ocean, so that's what we're looking forward to,’ a 62-year-old astronaut, Barry

The Crew-9 mission, consisting of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, is set to return to Earth after a brief handover period with the newly arrived Crew-10 expedition crew, pending weather conditions at the splashdown sites off the coast of Florida.