NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams returned safely to Earth on Tuesday after spending over nine months in space due to a failed Boeing test flight. Their SpaceX capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Tallahassee,

NASA removed two astronauts from its Crew-9 mission to allow for Williams and Wilmore to join the cohort, and return onboard the SpaceX Dragon − which carries four people at a time. The altered Crew-9 − only Hague and Gorbunov − launched aboard the SpaceX Dragon Freedom in late September.