NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, splashed down off the coast of Florida on Tuesday after departing the International Space Station. Wilmore and Williams had been aboard the ISS for nine months following problems with the Starliner space vehicle that brought them there in June 2024.

From left: NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN shortly after splashdown in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Fla, March 18, 2025.

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