Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to return to Earth after over nine months aboard the ISS. According to Nilesh M. Desai, NASA ensures astronauts' safe return via crew missions, which occur every six months.

Sunita Williams return LIVE Updates: Crew-10 will soon enter the ISS and join the Expedition 72 crew of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Don Petitt, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner.

Takuya was born in 1975 and was selected as an astronaut in 2009. Before joining JAXA, he was a pilot for All Nippon Airways, accumulating over 3,700 flight hours flying the Boeing 767. This was the second mission to space, following his previously successful mission with JAXA.