NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts have successfully returned to Earth after completing the agency’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission.  

Astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, together with fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, successfully splashed down in the Gulf of America, off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, at 17:57 local time, NASA announced in a statement. 

Their journey home began on March 18, 2025, with the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft leaving the International Space Station’s (ISS) Harmony module at 05:05 local time. The journey took around 17 hours in total. 

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