Sunita Williams greeted by Dolphins
Astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after an eight-day mission turned into a nine-month ordeal in space. Astronauts being welcomed by dolphins.

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 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.
A video of astronauts being welcomed by dolphins has gone viral. The pods were seen swimming around the capsule when the operation to recover the capsule was underway.
"This is extremely cool," US Vice President JD Vance commented on one of the videos. Another user shared the video and said the dolphins "wanted to say hi to the astronauts".
The recovery vessel successfully lifted the capsule out of the water after which the side hatch of the capsule was opened for the first time since September. The astronauts stepped out of the capsule and were taken to Houston for a 45-day rehabilitation program.
Williams and Wilmore, both former Navy pilots, had flown to the orbital lab on June 5 last year on what was supposed to be an eight-day mission and the first crewed flight of a Boeing Starliner. They were left stranded after the Starliner capsule suffered propulsion issues. Deemed unfit to fly, it returned uncrewed in September. After a series of delays, a Dragon spacecraft carrying a relief team docked at the space station on Sunday.
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