NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, safely landed off Tallahassee, Florida on March 18, 2025. Their return completed NASA’s ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft “Freedom” splashed down at 5:57 p.m. EDT in the Gulf of America, bringing to close a mission that was extended far beyond its original plan due to technical issues. Williams and Wilmore, who originally launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on June 5, 2024, for what was planned as an eight-day Boeing Crew Flight Test, ended up spending 286 days … Continue reading Suni Williams and NASA Astronauts Return After 9-Month Space Stay: The Physical Toll of Extended Spaceflight