‘Promise made, promise kept’: White House on Sunita Williams’ return to earth after 285 days

Moments after Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore splashed down off the Florida skim procedure Tallahassee, thus returning to earth after 285 days, the White Dwelling launched that it has kept its ‘promise.’ Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore on Wednesday returned safely to Earth after spending over 9 months at the International Space Situation (ISS). Their spacecraft, SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom capsule, successfully splashed down off the Florida skim procedure Tallahassee, at 5.57 pm ET on Tuesday (3:27am IST, Wednesday).

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the White Dwelling shared the video of the moment SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the skim of Florida and described it as “NASA astronauts splashdown to Earth after 9 months caught in space.” In the identical post, the White Dwelling also boasted how President Trump has fulfilled his promise. “Promise made, promise kept: President Trump pledged to rescue the astronauts stranded in space for 9 months. This day, they safely splashed down in the Gulf of The US, because of the Elon Musk, SpaceX, and NASA!”

US President Donald Trump had promised to “rescue” NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore “stranded” in space and has kept his promise, mentioned the White Dwelling, because the 2 astronauts returned to Earth early morning, at 3:27 am (IST).

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Williams’ space mission used to be to begin with put scheduled to final seven days but obtained extended because of the a technical glitch. Her SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, staunch hours after departing the ISS.

Williams, who has performed 62 hours over 9 spacewalks, holds the story for the most time spent spacewalking by a female astronaut.