Wilmore and Williams Splash Down Aboard SpaceX Dragon After Nine-month Stay in Space Written 19 March 2025

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Wilmore and Williams Splash Down Aboard SpaceX Dragon After Nine-month Stay in Space

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Splashdown | Credit: The Launch Pad; YouTube; framegrab

The Washington Post reports, “The spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore splashed down Tuesday evening in the Gulf of Mexico after a 286-day odyssey that started with a technical problem that forced NASA to swap vehicles and extend the mission from about eight days to nine months.”
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Re-Entry and Splashdown
(NASA; YouTube)