After more than nine months in space, the crew of the Boeing Crew Flight Test mission have returned home. Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams boarded SpaceX Crew Dragon C212 Freedom and undocked from the International Space Station on March 17, and splashed down off the coast of Florida on March 18.
They were joined by NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, who launched on Freedom, which contained two empty seats that are now being used by Wilmore and Williams, back in September 2024 for NASA’s Crew-9 mission.