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After a nail-biting nine months lost in the cosmic wilds, NASA’s stranded astronauts have finally crashed back to Earth in a blaze of glory!
On March 18, 2025, the fearless duo—Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore—alongside crewmates Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom capsule, ending a saga that gripped the world.
What started as a routine eight-day jaunt to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Boeing’s glitch-riddled Starliner morphed into a 286-day epic, complete with thruster fails, political firestorms, and a rescue mission for the ages.
The astronauts’ fiery re-entry lit up the night sky, their capsule parachuting into the ocean off Florida’s coast at 5:57 PM ET, greeted by dolphins and roaring cheers from mission control. “What a ride!” Hague shouted, as Williams flashed a thumbs-up, emerging from the craft with grins “ear to ear.”
Their unplanned marathon (spanning 4,576 orbits and 121 million miles) saw them battle microgravity, feast on dehydrated Thanksgiving grub, and even vote from space in the 2024 election.
But behind the triumph, drama brewed: Boeing’s Starliner ditched them in September, forcing SpaceX to swoop in, while Trump and Elon Musk spun tales of political abandonment—claims NASA fiercely denied.
X posts exploded with awe: “9 months stranded and they’re still smiling—legends!” one fan raved. From breaking spacewalk records (Williams clocked 62 hours!) to dodging Russian satellite debris, these cosmic castaways turned a disaster into a dazzling tale of survival.
Now, as they trade orbit for Earth’s gravity, the question burns: what’s next for these space titans? This is one landing you’ll never forget!
See the video below:
Source: X
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