Sunita Williams, Fellow Astronaut Face More Time In Space, Return Delayed Till Late March

The agency said that Williams and Willmore would return to Earth along with astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov after the four-member Crew-10 mission reaches the space station.

The mission is expected to take off in late March 2025. It was originally slated to launch in February. The agency said the launch was delayed to give teams time to complete processing on a new Dragon spacecraft.

“Known as a handover period, it allows Crew-9 to share any lessons learned with the newly arrived crew and support a better transition for ongoing science and maintenance at the complex,” NASA said in a statement on Tuesday.