NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore are finally back on Earth. The two spent more than eight months on the International Space Station, even though they initially expected to stay for about eight days. The capsule splashed down off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, on Tuesday afternoon.

Lift-off has taken place at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket blasted off successfully in its mission to rescue two stranded astronauts

SpaceX launched a crewed NASA mission on Friday to return two astronauts from the International Space Station, after technical issues with Boeing’s spacecraft extended their stay for nine months, leading SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump to suggest they were stranded for “political reasons.”

Crew-10 members will board SpaceX rocket to International Space Station, which sets up the return to Earth of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. Depending on cloud cover, weather and visibility ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have departed the International Space Station which has been their unexpected home for nine months and are returning to Earth on a SpaceX rocket

Welcome to Edition 7.36 of the Rocket Report! Well, after nine months, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally back on Earth, safe and sound. This brings to conclusion one of the stranger and more dramatic human spaceflight stories in years. We're glad they're finally home, soon to be reunited with their families.