A pair of NASA astronauts, who were stranded in space for more than nine months, returned to Earth on Tuesday, landing in the Gulf of America off Tallahassee, Florida, bringing an end to an unforeseen odyssey.
Barry "Butch" Wilmore, 62, and Suni Williams, 59, returned home after a new crew replaced them and two other astronauts reached the International Space Station (ISS) over the weekend.
The four-person Crew-10 carried by a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft early on Sunday met up with the ISS, where Wilmore and Williams had been living since their planned roughly week-long mission in June 2024 turned into a much longer one.
"On behalf of SpaceX, welcome home," radioed SpaceX Mission Control in California.
"What a ride," replied NASA astronaut Nick Hague, the capsule’s commander.
A pod of Dolphins stopped by to say welcome home to the Astronauts! 🐬 pic.twitter.com/0XXdMJbKG8
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