NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 members pose together with the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Suni Williams, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Butch Wilmore return to Earth March 18, 2025.
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(Cape Canaveral, FL) – NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to splash down on Earth just before 6:00pm Eastern (DST) after spending more than nine months in space.
They were originally supposed to be at the International Space Station for a little over a week, but their stay was extended after the Boeing Starliner capsule that they took in June experienced issues.
Instead, Wilmore and Williams returned on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. They will now be debriefed and rehabilitated back to life with gravity.
