After NASA astronaut Sunita Williams returns home, she is smiling. Mint

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Buch Willmore, who had been “trapped” in space for the last nine months, have finally returned home to a SpaceX dragon spacecraft. His extended migration in space became a case of immense interest worldwide, which increased many concerns about his health.

Now, Crew -9 is safely returned and NASA has given the world the first form of four astronauts that landed on Earth in early Wednesday.

Immediately after Splashdown, a large recovery vessel hoisted the SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft, named FreedomRider. The teams opened the hatch, and one by one, the astronauts were helped on the indications of the dynamics AIDS, waving, and shining thumbs.

Sunita Williams was all smiling as she came out Freedom,

The official rapid response account of Trump 47 White House 47 posted a video on X, “After 286 days in space, @Astro_Suni is finally home.”

NASA came out of Crew -9 to come out of landing and dragon spacecraft. NASA said, “We have been getting our first look on #Crew 9 after returning to Earth! The recovery teams will now help the crew out of the dragon, after returning to a standard procedure for all crew members from long -term missions,” NASA said.

Splashdown

NASA astronauts Buch Wilmore and Sunita Williams returned to Earth in a spacex capsule on Tuesday, with a soft splash on the coast of Florida, what nine months later did their faulty Boeing Starelineer Craft to stay at the international space station for a week.

Their return caps a long space mission that was filled with uncertainty and technical troubles and a rare example of NASA’s casual plan – and turned the latest failures of Starlineer into a global spectacle.

Sunita William launched in space

Willmore and Williams, two veteran NASA astronauts and retired US Navy Test Pilots, were launched in space as Starlineer’s first crew in June, expected to be an eight-day test mission.

But issues with Starlineer’s propulsion system promoted the delay of returning to their home, to conclude in NASA’s decision to withdraw them this year as part of the rotation schedule of the agency’s crew.

On Tuesday, March 18, Wilmor and Williams farewell to seven other astronauts of the station, as they were ignored from ISS to ET (0505 GMT) from ET (0505 GMT) to go on a 17 -hour trip to Earth.

The four -person crew, formally part of NASA’s crew -9 astronaut rotation mission, re -entered the Earth’s atmosphere around ET at 5:45 pm.

‘what a ride’

Crew -9 Mission Commander, NASA astronaut Nick Hague inside the Dragon Capsule, told NASA’s astronaut Nick Hague after being published down, “What is the ride.”

“I see a capsule filled with a capsule, filled with ear to the ear,” the Hague was quoted by Reuters.

‘286 days in space’

Wilmore and Williams have logged into space on the mission 286 days, which is more than the average six -month ISS mission period, but is much less than the American record holder Frank Rubio. The space ending in 2023 had unpredictable results of their 371 days continuously, a coolant leak on a Russian spacecraft.

Williams has prolonged 608 cumulative days in space, capping his third spaceflight, which is the second for any American astronaut after 675 days of Pagi Whitson. Russian Cosmonott Oleg Cononenko set a world record in 878 cumulative days last year.