Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams – stuck onboard the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024 – finally arrived back on Earth on Tuesday evening, more than nine months after the failure of Boeing’s pioneering Starliner capsule scuppered their originally scheduled mission. A Space X Dragon capsule containing Wilmore and Williams, along with Nasa's Nick Hague and Russia’s Alexander Gorbunov, splashed down off the coast of Florida after a 17-hour descent

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