New Delhi, March 19 -- NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to planet Earth on Tuesday after staying in space for about nine months. The SpaceX capsule, in which the astronauts travelled, parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday morning (IST), hours after departing the International Space Station.

The splashdown took place off the coast of Tallahassee in the Florida Panhandle. Williams, 59 and Wilmore, 62 were expected to stay on the ISS for about a week but were stranded there after arriving in June last year.

The successful splashdown will follow as part of her post-mission recovery. Some of them are:

Immediate medical attention: Sunita Williams and her fellow astronauts were assisted out of the SpaceX Cr...