Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station will be returned to Earth on Tuesday evening, NASA said. Both the astronauts will return alongside another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft,

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.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore's extended stay on the ISS is set to end on March 18, as NASA says the weather conditions for the day are favourable.