Elon Musk’s SpaceX Dragon spacecraft brought the astronauts back home.
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into a nine-month ordeal in space. The two astronauts came back home with NASA’s Nick Hague, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, forming NASA/SpaceX Crew-9.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Dragon spacecraft brought the astronauts back home and splashed down at 3:27 am off the Florida coast. The astronauts were welcomed by Dolphins who were seen swimming around the capsule which was later retrieved by the recovery vessel.
There are a bunch of dolphins swimming around SpaceX’s Dragon capsule. They want to say hi to the Astronauts too! lol pic.twitter.com/sE9bVhgIi1
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) March 18, 2025
The Dolphins were swimming around the capsule when the operation to recover the capsule was underway.