NASA removed two astronauts from its Crew-9 mission to allow for Williams and Wilmore to join the cohort, and return onboard the SpaceX Dragon − which carries four people at a time. The altered Crew-9 − only Hague and Gorbunov − launched aboard the SpaceX Dragon Freedom in late September.

After months in space, four astronauts have safely splashed down in the Gulf of America, completing an extraordinary mission aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams,