NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore are undergoing an extended mission on the ISS due to spacecraft technical issues. Originally an eight-day mission, it has stretched to eight months, raising financial and physical concerns.

NASA and SpaceX are accelerating the target launch and return dates for the upcoming crew rotation missions to and from the International Space Station (ISS), which will bring the agency's stranded astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams aboard the ISS might return to Earth in mid-March, earlier than initially planned, due to SpaceX modifying its capsule schedule. Technical issues delayed their return on Boeings Starliner capsule,