Splashdown: astronauts return after drawn-out mission

A SpaceX capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico
A SpaceX capsule carrying two astronauts has softly spashed down off Florida's coast. -AP

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to earth in a SpaceX capsule with a soft splashdown off Florida's coast, nine months after their faulty Boeing Starliner craft upended what was to be a week-long stay on the International Space Station.

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