NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Watching Indian Ocean | International Space Station

NASA Astronaut Suni Williams Watching Indian Ocean | International Space Station

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Suni Williams peers at the Earth below from inside the International Space Station's cupola. The orbital outpost was soaring 260 miles above the Indian Ocean at the time of this photograph.

Welcome home, Suni! 

Crew-9's SpaceX Dragon spacecraft landed off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia aboard. Hague, Gorbunov, Williams, and Wilmore returned from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station. 

Hague and Gorbunov have been at the International Space Station since Sept. 29, 2024, while Williams and Wilmore arrived on June 6. This completes a stay in space of 171 days for Hague and Gorbunov and 286 days for Williams and Wilmore.  

A plane carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 later touched down at Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston, Texas at 11:19 pm CDT, March 18, 2025.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams Official Biography:
https://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/biographies/sunita-l-williams/biography
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/williams-s.pdf

Image Credit: NASA/JSC
Capture Date: March 9, 2025
Release Date: March 19, 2025

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