Photos: Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore return to Earth

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NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns To Earth In this handout image provided by NASA, A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water on March 18, 2025 off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. (Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images) (Handout/NASA via Getty Images)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns To Earth Support teams work around a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. (Photo by NASA / Keegan Barber / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) (Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns To Earth In this handout image provided by NASA, A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water on March 18, 2025 off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. (Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images) (Handout/NASA via Getty Images)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns To Earth In this handout image provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), support teams work on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov onboard on March 18, 2025 off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida. Williams and Wilmore were returning from a stay onboard the International Space Station that began in June 2024. (Photo by Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images) (Handout/NASA via Getty Images)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns To Earth NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore(l), Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (2nd L), and NASA astronauts Nick Hague (2nd R) and Suni Williams (R) are seen inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN shortly after having landed in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. (Photo by NASA / Keegan Barber / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) (Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns To Earth NASA astronaut Suni Williams is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after she, NASA astronaut Nick Hague, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov landed in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. (Photo by NASA / Keegan Barber / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) (Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns To Earth NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after he, NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov landed in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. (Photo by NASA / Keegan Barber / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) (Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns To Earth NASA astronaut Suni Williams is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after she, NASA astronaut Nick Hague, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov landed in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. (Photo by NASA / Keegan Barber / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) (Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns To Earth NASA astronaut Nick Hague is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after, NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov landed in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. (Photo by NASA / Keegan Barber / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) (Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images)

NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Returns To Earth Teachers from Gurukul school of art carry back a painting welcoming American astronauts, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back to earth on the street outside their art school in Mumbai. American astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will be returning back to earth after more than nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). (Photo by Ashish Vaishnav/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) (SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett)

SpaceX Stuck Astronauts From left, Joel Montalbano, deputy associate administrator, NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate; Steve Stich, manager, NASA's Commercial Crew Program; and Bill Spetch, operations integration manager, NASA's International Space Station Program, speak to reporters during a press conference at Johnson Space Center on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in Houston, following the splashdown of astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague, and Alexander Gorbunov. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) (Ashley Landis/AP)

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