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The Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams and two crew members of the NASA Space Station returned to Earth at 23.57 hours of Greece, on Tuesday (18/3/25) after a prolonged 9.5 -month -old Space Odyssey.
17 hours after being detached from the International Space Station, Wilmore, Williams, Crew Commander 9 Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov fell on the coast of the Gulf of Florida near Talahasi.
Splashdown confirmed! #Crew9 is now back on Earth in their @SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. pic.twitter.com/G5tVyqFbAu
– In (@nasa) March 18, 2025
In this way, the “Marathon” mission for the two Starliner astronauts – which remained a total of 286 days and 7 hours in space was completed, covering 4,576 orbits and 121 million miles from their launch, on June 5 last year, on a mission.
Their flight ranks sixth in the list with the largest individual NASA missions.
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