By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday 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.

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose weeklong Boeing Starliner mission turned into an extended stay in space, have returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of Florida around 5:57 p.m.