NASA stated that if weather permits, the SpaceX capsule carrying Wilmore, Williams and two other astronauts will undock from the space station early Tuesday and splash down off Florida's coast later that evening.

Two American astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for over nine months are scheduled to return to Earth on Tuesday evening, according to NASA. Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams will make the journey back alongside another NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule,

WASHINGTON: A pair of US astronauts stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station will be returned to Earth on Tuesday evening, NASA said. Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are to be transported home with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft,