Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams have spent month marooned on the International Space Station.
The pair lifted off to the ISS last June on what was supposed to be a routine test flight of Boeing’s Strainercapsule to evaluate the spacecraft’s capabilities.
They were scheduled to spend a week in space, but technical problems forced their capsule to return without them, leaving them stranded with no way back home - until today (18 March).
As they journey back to Earth, The Independent takes a look at the milestone events in history that have happened while Wilmore and Williams were away.
They sure have a lot to catch up on.
