NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Splashdown | International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Splashdown | International Space Station

NASA astronaut Suni Williams is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronaut Suni Williams is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronaut Nick Hague is helped out of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia, second from left, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague, second from right, and Suni Williams, right are seen inside a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore, Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague, as well as Suni Williams boarded 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. Crew-9 successfully splashed down off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, at 5:57 p.m. EDT.

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.  

On the main deck of the recovery ship, the crew exited the spacecraft. They will undergo medical checks before a short helicopter ride to board a plane for NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

At 1:05 a.m. EDT Tuesday, March 18, 2025, NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia undocked from the space-facing port of International Space Station’s Harmony module aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

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.

Image Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber
Release Date: March 18, 2025

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