Finally! 'Stranded' NASA Astronauts Return to Earth on SpaceX Dragon

Welcome back! NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are home at last. They spent nine months orbiting Earth on the International Space Station. Long-term ISS missions aren't unusual, except these particular astronauts weren't planning on an extended stay. Williams and Wilmore rode to the station on a crewed Boeing Starliner test mission in June. The crew capsule encountered technical issues and was sent back to Earth without the astronauts. Their eight-day stay became a months-long stay. The pair hitched a ride back on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. The capsule made a picture-perfect splashdown off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida on Tuesday afternoon. The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen after it splashed down off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, on Tuesday, returning Crew-9 to Earth. NYT/Screenshot by CNET Crew-9 makes successful splashdown Crew-9's SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is named Freedom. Dragon's parachutes gently lowered the capsule into the calm water afte ... Read full article.