STRANDED NASA ASTRONAUTS RETURN TO EARTH FROM ISS

Tuesday night, March 18th, brought a safe splashdown at long last for Suni Williams KD5PLB and Butch Wilmore, the two NASA astronauts left stranded on the International Space Station for nine and a half months after their Boeing Starliner spacecraft malfunctioned. They splashed down inside the SpaceX Dragon Freedom capsule off the coast of Florida along with NASA astronaut Nick Hague KG5TMV and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. The 17-hour flight home ended a saga that began with what was supposed to have been only a short test flight aboard the Boeing Starliner in June.

(ABC NEWS, ASSOCIATED PRESS)