Follow-up to this post
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams (along with two others) have returned. Their mission to the International Space Station is finally at an end, having expanded from eight days to about nine months.
SpaceX launched Dragon Freedom spacecraft last Friday on a Falcon 9 rocket; it docked with the ISS on Saturday night, and yesterday it returned to Earth with Crew 9 about 6 pm EDT, with splashdown in the Gulf of America.
It wasn't a record for time served on the ISS. Several U.S. astronauts have spent more time there, up to a record number of 371 days. Butch and Suni were there for 286 days, though of course they weren't planning on it at the beginning. NASA missions are always understood to be a little flexible, depending on conditions.
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