Washington: Sunita Williams Video  After waiting for many months, the hopes of Sunita Williams's return have now increased. The spacecraft that will bring Sunita back has reached space.

NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Alexander Gorbunov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, traveling in the Dragon capsule of NASA and SpaceX's Crew-9 mission, have successfully reached the International Space Station (ISS). The team has arrived to bring back Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore.

Sunita looked happy

Sunita and her companion Butch have been stranded in space since June 2024. Now as soon as the SpaceX capsule arrived, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore expressed great joy and welcomed them. A video of this has also surfaced.

SpaceX Crew 9 will return next year

SpaceX launched this mission on Saturday, which reached the space station today. Space mission SpaceX Crew 9 will return to Earth next year. NASA said in a statement that Hague and Gorbunov entered the space station at 7:04 pm.

Hague and Gorbunov were greeted by the space station's Expedition 72 crew, which included NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barrett, Jeanette Epps, Don Pettit, Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexander Grebenkin, Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner.

The number of crew on the space station will increase

In a post on X, NASA's Johnson Space Center wrote, "You're officially welcome aboard." The Expedition 72 crew welcomed Crew 9. Notably, the number of crew on the space station will increase to 11 people for some time, until Crew-8 members Dominic, Barrett, Epps and Grebenkin return to Earth in early October.

On Saturday, SpaceX launched the two-crew Crew-9 mission to the ISS to bring back Starliner astronauts.

Sunita and Butch will return in February 2025

Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams (Sunita Williams Video ) will formally continue their work as part of the Mission 71/72 crew until February 2025. They will return aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft along with two other crew members assigned to the agency's SpaceX Crew-9 mission.