Using two sets of parachutes, the craft slowed its orbital speed of roughly 17,000 miles per hour to a soft 17 miles per hour at splashdown. Image: Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pictured around ...

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SpaceX ‘X’ handle wrote. Shortly after splashdown, recovery crews rushed in boats to inspect the scorched Crew-9 capsule, which floated in calm waters as a pod of dolphins swam nearby.

Wilmore’s Baptist church in Houston also held prayers for him. Upon splashdown, SpaceX recovery teams quickly retrieved the capsule. A rig onboard the recovery ship lifted it out of the water and ...

After epic splashdown, the rescue boats were seen reaching ... NASA spokesperson called these dolphins ‘honorary part of the recovery team.’ Astronauts who were stuck in space for nine months ...

They emerged from the SpaceX Dragon capsule after a successful splashdown. Recovery teams helped Williams, Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Aleksandr Gorbunov exit the capsule. This marked the end ...

Recovery teams fasten safety harnesses to the capsule, preparing it for secure towing to the retrieval vessel for the next phase of post-landing operations. A rare glimpse of Crew-9 inside Dragon ...