NASA Astronauts Return To Earth After 9 Months Stuck On ISS

FLORIDA COAST – NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday evening with a soft splashdown off Florida’s coast, 9 months after their faulty Boeing Starliner craft upended what was to be a week-long stay on the international space station.

Wilmore and Williams had strapped inside their crew dragon spacecraft along with two other astronauts and undocked from the orbiting laboratory of the ISS at 1:05am to embark on a 17-hour trip to Earth.

After the splashdown, the astronauts were flown to their crew quarters at the space agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

They’re expected to undergo several days of health checks.

FLORIDA COAST – NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday evening with a soft splashdown off Florida’s coast, 9 months after their faulty Boeing Starliner craft upended what was to be a week-long stay on the international space station.