Stranded in space for 8 months, Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore to return home in March

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Sunita Williams and her crew partner Butch Wilmore, aboard the International Space Station (ISS), confirmed that the Crew-10 mission is scheduled to launch from Earth on March 12 and bring them home a week later on March 19.

The Crew-10 mission will carry a four-personnel team of NASA astronauts Anne McClain, and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov to the space station for a six-month-long mission.

Following Crew-10's arrival, both the astronauts will participate in a week-long handover process.

After this, a new Space Station Commander will take charge.

Currently, Sunita Williams is the commander of the flying laboratory.

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore flew to the International Space Station's Boeing Starliner on June 5 last year and have been stuck since due to technical problems with the spacecraft.

The move to bring them back comes after US President Donald Trump asked SpaceX's Elon Musk to "go get abandoned astronauts" from space, urging immediate facilitation of their return.

"I have just asked Elon Musk and SpaceX to "go get" the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration. They have been waiting for many months on Space Station. Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe. Good luck Elon!!!," Donald Trump wrote on the Truth Social platform.