STRANDED astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams have finally splashed back on Earth – after being stuck in space for a gruelling nine months.
The pair returned to their home planet in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft alongside two rescue mission astronauts on Tuesday night when the capsule landed off the Florida coast.
The capsule, named freedom, dramatically splashed down in the sea near Florida and Tallahassee, ending an unexpectedly long mission which started in June 2024.
The two accompanying rescue members, American Nick Hague and Russian Aleksandr Gorbunov, had been living at the International Space Station with them since last September.
Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Sunni” Williams had initially been sent on a days-long mission to test out Boeing’s Starliner on its first crewed flight.
But after the spaceship developed propulsion problems, they stayed in space the ISS whilst their craft flew back empty.
Wilmore and Williams’ 286-day stay exceeds the usual six-month ISS rotation but ranks only sixth among US records for single-mission duration.
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