Sunita Williams, Wilmore return to Earth safely after Crew 9 Dragon splashdown in Florida

Sunita Williams Return LIVE: Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after an sudden nine-month cease in space. The NASA astronauts, alongside with fellow American Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, safely splashed down off the Florida wing at 5:57 PM ET on Tuesday (3:27 AM IST, Wednesday). It is serious to display that Wilmore and Williams have been stranded on the ISS for nine months after arriving in June final 365 days. First and most predominant, they were scheduled to cease for approximately a week. The astronauts traveled to the ISS aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams & Barry “Butch” Wilmore return to Earth after being stranded in space for 9 months.

They left on June 5, 2024.

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Sunita Williams Return LIVE Updates:

• Sunita Williams dwell updates: Elon Musk thanks US President Donald Trump

Sunita Williams dwell updates: SpaceX owner Elon Musk wrote on X, “Congratulations to the @SpaceX and @NASA teams for one other rep astronaut return! Thanks to @POTUS for prioritizing this mission!”

#WATCH | Being stranded on the World Space Space for 9 months, Sunita Williams is help on Earth with a smile

In an instant, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 – astronauts Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, Sunita Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov returned to Earth after the… pic.twitter.com/mdZIQTG4SN

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2025

• NASA lauds the impossible scuttle and contribution of SpaceX
• Congratulations to the SpaceX and NASA’s team for a winning mission: NASA

Congratulations to the @SpaceX and @NASA teams for one other rep astronaut return!

Thanks to @POTUS for prioritizing this mission! https://t.co/KknFDbh59s

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 18, 2025

• Celebrations in Gujarat as NASA astronauts return to Earth

#WATCH | Mehsana, Gujarat | Folks explicit joy and burst firecrackers in Jhulasan – the native village of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams after the winning Splashdown of SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying Crew-9 at Tallahassee, Florida

NASA’s astronauts Sunita Williams and… pic.twitter.com/fKs9EVnPSf

— ANI (@ANI) March 18, 2025

• Sunita Williams waves after getting out of SpaceX pill

Sunita Williams waved and smiled after she changed into once taken out of the SpaceX Crew 9 Dragon pill, post a winning splashdown off the Florida wing.

• NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore return to Earth after 9-months in space

Stuck in space no extra, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a thoroughly different run dwelling to end out a saga that began with a bungled test flight bigger than nine months ago. Their SpaceX pill parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico in the early night, factual hours after departing the World Space Space.

• Jitendra Singh calls Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams ‘daughter of India’

“…She (Sunita Williams), being a daughter of India, has made your entire world proud…She has efficiently finished the job that she changed into once assigned to. Whereas all of us pray for a rep return, we also feel proud of her…A extraordinarily pleasurable twist of destiny is the truth that this day itself, Top Minister Modi made an announcement on Maha Kumbh in the Parliament and incidentally, Sunita also expressed her best wishes for the Kumbh…,” Singh suggested ANI.

“There may be a in level of fact deep connection between her and India and of direction Gujarat, the affirm that she belongs to. Right here's also a sign of the truth that virtually all the space companies outside India, including NASA, are in level of fact having Indian women and boys leading most of their well-known missions…,” the MoS said when requested about Top Minister Narendra Modi’s letter to Williams.

• NASA Astronaut Nick Hague says ‘A privilege to name it dwelling’

Astronaut Nick Hague wrote on X: “It’s been a privilege to name the @Space_Station dwelling, to play my part in its 25-365 days legacy of doing be taught for humanity, and to work with colleagues, now chums, from all over the globe. My spaceflight occupation, love most, is corpulent of the sudden.”

• Prayers were held on the Dola Mata temple for Sunita Williams

Prayers are being equipped on the Dola Mata Temple in Jhulasan, the native village of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, for her rep return to Earth.

• “Even supposing you are hundreds of miles away, you dwell end to our hearts,” PM Modi writes to Sunita Williams
• Sunita Williams’ ancestral Gujarat village plans ‘Diwali’

With prayers on their lips, residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams’ ancestral village in Gujarat eagerly watch for her rep return to Earth. They've planned Diwali-love celebrations to look at the occasion on Wednesday morning.

• Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore expressed gratitude for Elon Musk and Donald Trump

In the video posted by Musk on X, Sunita Williams said, “We are coming help forward of lengthy, so don’t manufacture those plans without me. We’ll be help forward of too lengthy.”

Butch Wilmore said, “All of us have the utmost admire for Mr. Musk and clearly admire and admiration for our President of the US Donald Trump. We possess them, we possess all what they construct for us, human spaceflight for our nation, and we’re thankful for the positions they are in.”

• Sunita Williams Returns LIVE Updates: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore, who're to return to earth after being stranded in space for over nine months, expressed gratitude for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump.