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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are yet backmost connected coagulated ground.
The NASA astronauts who months agone flew to abstraction aboard Boeing's failed Starliner spacecraft landed Tuesday evening disconnected the seashore of Florida connected a SpaceX Dragon capsule. The conveyance was the aforesaid 1 selected for their instrumentality voyage months agone erstwhile 2 astronauts of a SpaceX ngo known arsenic Crew-9 reached the International Space Station.
The Crew-9 team, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, were besides connected committee the Dragon Freedom erstwhile it made a melodramatic parachute-assisted splashdown pursuing a lengthy 17-hour spaceflight.
For Wilmore and Williams, the h2o landing brought to an extremity an unexpected nine-month ngo to orbit erstwhile they piloted the Boeing Starliner for its maiden crewed voyage. The vehicle, which encountered method issues erstwhile it reached the orbital laboratory, returned successful September to Earth without them.
Plenty of radical were tuned successful to livestreams of the SpaceX Dragon erstwhile it neared Earth to hole for landing. But if you missed Wilmore and Williams' instrumentality to Earth, present are photos of the Dragon's landing, followed by the 4 spacefarers exiting the craft.
See photos of SpaceX Dragon landing disconnected Florida coast
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is seen arsenic it lands with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard successful the h2o disconnected the seashore of Tallahassee, Florida.
The Crew Dragon capsule containing Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams and 2 different astronauts descends by parachute earlier their splashdown disconnected the seashore of Florida. The landing came aft a 17-hour voyage done the cosmos aft undocking from the International Space Station.
The Crew Dragon capsule containing Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams and 2 different astronauts floats aft their splashdown pursuing their instrumentality to world from the International Space Station disconnected the seashore of Florida connected Wednesday successful a inactive representation from video.
The Crew Dragon capsule containing Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams and 2 different astronauts floats aft their splashdown pursuing their instrumentality to world from the International Space Station disconnected the seashore of Florid connected March 18, 2025 successful a inactive representation from video.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft floats disconnected the seashore of Florida arsenic enactment teams enactment to retrieve the vehicle. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov returned connected the capsule Tuesday evening aft departing the International Space Station.
Support teams enactment astir a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft soon aft it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
A SpaceX enactment squad subordinate is seen airborne portion moving to assistance the SpaceX Dragon capsule onto a betterment conveyance pursuing its landing disconnected the seashore of Florida.
See photos of Crew-9, Starliner astronauts unboarding
From near to right, NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, astronaut Nick Hague and astronaut Suni Williams are seen wrong a SpaceX Dragon aft the spacecraft was hoisted onto a betterment vessel aft landing Tuesday evening successful the h2o disconnected the seashore of Tallahassee, Florida.
NASA astronaut Suni Williams is helped retired of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft pursuing a instrumentality to Earth aft a nine-month enactment astatine the International Space Station. She and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore crewed the failed Boeing Starliner successful June.
NASA astronaut Nick Hague is helped retired of the SpaceX Dragon Freedom capsule onboard the SpaceX betterment vessel MEGAN aft he, NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov returned Tuesday from the International Space Station.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov is helped retired of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
Eric Lagatta covers breaking and trending quality for USA TODAY. Reach him astatine [email protected]
This nonfiction primitively appeared connected USA TODAY: Starliner astronauts instrumentality to Earth: See photos of landing, unboarding
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