NASA Astronauts Splash Down Off Florida Coast After 9 Months In Space
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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will finally get their first breath of fresh Earth air after their roughly nine-day test flight stretched into a controversial monthslong journey.
Two NASA astronauts have splashed down off Florida’s coast after spending nine months stuck in space due to a malfunctioning return ship and a series of delays and staffing issues.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams landed in the Gulf of Mexico just before 6 p.m. ET Tuesday. All four parachutes deployed as intended in the final moments of the crew’s 17-hour journey back to Earth.
Within minutes of landing, crews approached the capsule to conduct safety checks on the spacecraft as a pod of dolphins splashed around them.
NASA’s Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency joined the pair in the capsule.
The capsule is set to be lifted onto a recovery boat around 6:30 p.m. ET. That process, along with the removal of astronauts from the capsule, will take under an hour, NASA commentators said. The astronauts are expected to then undergo medical checks, return to land by helicopter within four hours, then board a plane to NASA headquarters in Houston.
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