NEW YORK: After nine months in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have finally arrived back on Earth.
Their SpaceX capsule made a fast and fiery re-entry through the Earth’s atmosphere, before four parachutes opened to take them to a gentle splashdown off the coast of Florida.
“The crew’s doing great,” Steve Stich, manager, Nasa’s Commercial Crew Program, said at a news conference.
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It brings to an end a mission that was supposed to last for just eight days.
