Space
NASA Astronauts Back on Earth After Months Stuck in Space
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Two NASA astronauts stuck in orbit for nine months finally returned to Earth in a SpaceX craft, capping a saga that captured international attention and deepened America’s reliance on the Elon Musk-led company.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, seated inside a Dragon capsule with two other crew members — NASA’s Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov — fell to Earth under parachutes and splashed down off the Florida coast around 6 p.m. New York time on Tuesday.