NASA’s Nick Hague and Russia’s Aleksandr Gorbunov returned safely with Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were stranded in space for nine months. SpaceX Mission Control welcomed them home as Hague celebrated their dramatic splashdown.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left the International Space Station after nine months in space, checking out with two other astronauts. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico in the early evening,

NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have returned to Earth from a weeklong mission at the International Space Station that turned into an unexpectedly extended stay.