♦ NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams returned to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon Spacecraft.

♦ They stayed at the International Space Station (ISS) for more than nine months. 

♦ They came alongside NASA’s Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.

♦ Sunita Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and she underwent training at the Johnson Space Center.

♦ She also worked in Moscow with the Russian Space Agency on the Russian contribution to the International Space Station.

♦ She launched on her first mission on December 9, 2006 aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery to join ISS Expeditions 14 and 15 for a 195-day stint in orbit.

♦ Williams returned to the space station on July 17, 2012 onboard Russian spacecraft Soyuz for a four-month stay before returning to earth on November 19. 

♦ On April 16, 2007, she became the first person to run a marathon in space, completing the Boston Marathon on a treadmill on the space station in 4 hours and 24 minute She became the only second woman to lead the International Space Station during her second spaceflight in 2012.