Sunita's Houston Homecoming | NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 | International Space Station
NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 flight engineer Sunita Williams declared this moment to be the "Best homecoming ever!"
Home sweet home! 🏠 Welcome home, Sunita! NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 touched down at Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston, Texas at 11:19 pm CDT, March 18, 2025, after their International Space Station mission.
NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams Biography
A 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 are returning from a long-duration science expedition aboard the International Space Station.
Hague and Gorbunov were at the International Space Station since Sept. 29, 2024, while Williams and Wilmore arrived on June 6. This represented a stay in space of 171 days for Hague and Gorbunov and 286 days for Williams and Wilmore.
Next up will be the arrival of the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft to the International Space Station due to launch on April 8, 2025, carrying NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of Russia. Kim and Zubritsky will be beginning their first space mission while Ryzhikov will be serving on his third expedition to the orbiting lab.
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.
Video Credit: Sunita Williams
Duration: 1 minute, 23 seconds
Capture Date: March 18, 2025
Capture Date: March 18, 2025
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