FILE PHOTO: NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams stand at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on the day of Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, June 1, 2024. [Photo/Agencies]
LOS ANGELES -- NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who had been stranded at the International Space Station (ISS) since last June, returned to Earth Tuesday afternoon.
The duo astronauts returned home with their fellow Crew-9 astronauts, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, on SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.
The spacecraft splashed down off Florida's coast at 5:57 pm Tuesday Eastern Time (2157 GMT), according to NASA live broadcast.
Williams and Wilmore had been stuck in space since last June due to technical problems of Boeing's Starliner which took them to the ISS.
