After an extended nine-month ISS mission, Nasa astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore splash down safely, ready to reunite with family and readjust to life on Earth
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Barry 'Butch' Wilmore and Sunita 'Suni' Williams were originally scheduled for an eight-day mission, but the Nasa astronauts remained aboard the International Space Station for nearly nine months
Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth
During her latest spacewalk with fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore, Williams achieved this milestone
US space agency Nasa confirmed Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore's long-awaited return to Earth after nearly nine months in zero gravity at the International Space Station
Now, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft has arrived at the ISS to bring them back. They will be traveling with a US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore's journey back to Earth is expected to take several hours, culminating in a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida
Nasa atronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore thanked Elon Musk and Donald Trump as SpaceX prepares to bring them home after 9 months stranded in space
With Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore set to return to Earth after nearly nine months in space, let's look at how the astronauts' return takes place
The astronaut crew is scheduled to travel back to Earth alongside Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft
A day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for Nasa's two stuck astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore.
After SpaceX Dragon's link-up to the forward facing port of the station's Harmony module, the crew members aboard Dragon and the space station will start conducting standard leak checks
Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers representing the US, Japan and Russia will spend the next few days learning the station's ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Indian-American Sunita Williams. Then the two will strap into their own SpaceX capsule later this week to close out an unexpected extended mission that began last June. Wilmore and Williams expected to be gone just a week when they launched on Boeing's first astronaut flight. They hit the nine-month mark earlier this month. The Boeing Starliner capsule encountered so many problems that NASA insisted it come back empty, leaving its test pilots behind to wait for a SpaceX lift. Their ride arrived in late September with a downsized crew of two and two empty seats reserved for the leg back. But more delays resulted when their replacements' brand new capsule needed extens
Mission also launched four crew members to ISS: Nasa astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov
According to an Associated Press report, the new crew consisting of four astronauts from the US, Japan, and Russia, will have to get to the ISS first before Williams and Willmore can head home
The two astronauts Sunita Williams, and Butch Wilmore have been stranded since June 2024 when an issue was found with Boeing's Starliner capsule, which returned without them
US President Donald Trump outlined his plan to bring home stranded astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, while criticising the Joe Biden administration for ignoring them
Sunita Williams returning to Earth: After nearly 10 months in space, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to return as NASA confirms their replacement crew's departure for the ISS