Hague and Gorbunov rode up to the station aboard Freedom in late September, on the launch of SpaceX's Crew-9 mission. Williams and Wilmore, on the other hand, reached the ISS on the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule, which lifted off in early June.

Wilmore and Williams will return on the SpaceX Dragon Freedom, the same spacecraft that transported the Crew-9 astronauts to the ISS. The astronauts' return is not a rescue mission, as their extended stay was planned last summer to accommodate crew ...

Crew Dragon Freedom returns Crew-9 astronauts to Earth after 171 days in space, landing in the Gulf of Mexico.

NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore hold a press conference following their return to earth. The press conference starts at 2:30 EST. You can watch live here. VIP access to exclusive Just the News newsmaker events hosted by John Solomon and his team.

On an extraordinary Tuesday evening, history was made as Crew-9 astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams splashed down off the coast of Florida, concluding an unexpected nine-month stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS).