India, March 12 -- NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are expected to return to Earth by March 16 following their lengthy stay on the International Space Station (ISS). Due to technical problems with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, their mission, which was originally only supposed to span ten days, ended up lasting almost ten months.

On March 12, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which will bring them back to Earth, is scheduled to be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Falcon-9 rocket.

The current Crew-9 expedition aboard the flying laboratory will be substituted with four NASA astronauts as part of the Crew-10 mission when the Dragon spacecraft lifts off.

Ahead of their return, experts have warned that it...