Swollen eyeballs, baby-like skin, and gravity shock: What Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore might experience upon returning to Earth

NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams are returning to Earth after a prolonged nine-month stay at the ISS due to Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft malfunctions. Their extended mission offers unique research opportunities on the effects of long-duration spaceflight. Wilmore and Williams will be retrieved by SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission, launching on March 15, 2025.