Butch Wilmore and Needham native Suni Williams bid farewell to the International Space Station — their home since last spring — departing aboard a SpaceX capsule alongside two other astronauts. The capsule undocked shortly after 1 a.m. Eastern and aimed for a splashdown off the Florida coast around 6 p.m. Eastern, weather permitting.

After nine months in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have finally arrived back on Earth. Their SpaceX capsule made a fast and fiery re-entry through the Earth's atmosphere, before four parachutes opened to take them to a gentle splash down off the coast of Florida.

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who have been stranded in space for nine months due to a broken shuttle, are finally headed back to Earth. NASA confirmed that the pair undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 1:05 a.m. EST on Tuesday, March 18. It was noted the ...