Two NASA astronauts, Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, are back on Earth! They were stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for more than nine months.
They were supposed to stay for only 10 days, but their spaceship, Boeing’s Starliner, had problems. Instead, they stayed and worked on the ISS.
On March 18, they came home in a SpaceX Dragon capsule. It landed safely in the ocean near Florida.
Williams has now spent 608 days in space!
NASA is still checking the Starliner spaceship to fix the problems. Astronauts need safe spaceships to travel to space and back home.
Welcome home, astronauts!
Luis Apolo Staff Reporter kids/1742962278/1613368218
Two NASA astronauts, Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, are back on Earth! They were stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for more than nine months.