India, March 19 -- Industrialist Anand Mahindra shared a warm welcome note on Wednesday for Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams after her return from space aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft as part of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission.

Williams and her NASA colleague Butch Wilmore returned to Earth on after nine months' stay at the International Space Station. Their eight-day journey in space stretched to nine months due to a glitch in their Boeing spacecraft.

Mahindra, 69, recalled running into Williams in Washington DC nearly two years ago during his visit to the US for the India-US Hi-Tech Handshake event during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's US visit that year. The throwback photo he shared features him, billioniare Mukesh Ambani and...