India, March 19 -- Four members of NASA's Crew-9 mission, including a pair of US astronauts who had been held up on the International Space Station since June, have finally returned to earth.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore along with another NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, splashed down safely off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, in the Gulf of America, as scheduled at 5:57 p.m. ET Tuesday.
Teams aboard SpaceX recovery vessels retrieved the spacecraft and its crew.
After returning to shore, the crew flew to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"The crew's doing great," NASA's Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich told reporters.
"We are thrilled to...