After being marooned in space for nine months, Astronaut Sunita Williams is back on earth along with her fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore.
IMAGE: Sunita Williams is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship Megan after she, NASA Astronauts Nick Hague and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov landed in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Photograph: NASA Keegan Barber/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: Wilmore, Gorbunov, Hague and Williams are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on board the SpaceX recovery ship Megan shortly after having landed in the waters off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, March 18, 2025, here and below. Photograph: NASA Keegan Barber/Handout via Reuters
Photograph: NASA TV/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: The SpaceX vehicle splashes down in in the waters off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida. Photograph: NASA Keegan Barber/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: Dolphins swim past the Space X Dragon capsule containing the space travelers following their return to earth from the International Space Station off the coast of Florida, March 18, 2025 in this still image from video. Photograph: NASA TV/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: Wilmore and Williams return to earth from the International Space Station in this still image from video. Photograph: NASA TV/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: Support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it splashed down in the waters off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, March 18, 2025, here and below. Photograph: NASA Keegan Barber/Handout via Reuters
Photograph: NASA Keegan Barber/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: The SpaceX Dragon capsule with the astronauts and cosmonaut on board is hoisted onto the recovery ship Megan after splashdown, March 18, 2025. Photograph: NASA TV/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: Wilmore reacts after he is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on board the SpaceX recovery ship Megan in this still image from video. Photograph: NASA TV/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: Wilmore is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on board the SpaceX recovery ship Megan. Photograph: NASA Keegan Barber/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: Nick Hague is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on board the SpaceX recovery ship Megan. Photograph: NASA Keegan Barber/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: Gorbunov is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on board the SpaceX recovery ship Megan. Photograph: NASA Keegan Barber/Handout via Reuters
IMAGE: NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails, left, NASA acting Associate Administrator Vanessa Wyche, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, NASA acting Administrator Janet Petro, NASA Associate Administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate Ken Bowersox, and NASA Director of the International Space Station and acting director of the Commercial Spaceflight Division, Robyn Gatens at the Space Operations Center at the Mary W Jackson NASA headquarters building in Washington, DC, here and below, watch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splash down. Photograph: Bill Ingalls/NASA
Photograph: Bill Ingalls/NASA
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