New Delhi, March 10 -- Sunita Williams, the NASA astronauts, formally transferred ISS command to the Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin ahead of her scheduled plan to board the SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft to return to Earth, USA Today reported. Roscosmos and National Aeronautics and Space Administration collaborated to make it possible for the two astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore who were stranded in space for months to depart for Earth.

The Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore initially embarked on a 10-day mission on June 5 aboard the Boeing Starliner but have been living on the ISS for the past nine months after their capsule faced successive failures. The spacecraft returned without a crew in September last year.

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