On Tuesday night, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stranded on the International Space Station for over nine months, finally returned to Earth in a dramatic splashdown off Florida’s Gulf coast aboard Elon Musk’s SpaceX Dragon capsule.
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In this image provided by NASA, a SpaceX capsule splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, as it lands off the coast of Florida with NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore and Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov. (Keegan Barber/NASA via AP)