NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, closing a saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago.
Their SpaceX capsule flew down into the Gulf of Mexico in the evening, a few hours after leaving the International Space Station, ending 286 days in space from what was supposed to be just a week-long mission due to problems with their Boeing Starliner capsule.
