Dolphins swimming around the Crew 9 Dragon mission – credit, NASA, via SWNSNASA announced on X yesterday that an additional, and unexpected welcoming party arrived to greet returning astronauts Berry Wilmore and Sunita Williams.
Splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico, teams on boats arrived to help the astronauts out of the Crew 9 Dragon Capsule, when a pod of bottlenose dolphins arrived to see what the fuss was about.
The unplanned welcome crew!
— NASA's Johnson Space Center (@NASA_Johnson) March 18, 2025
Crew-9 had some surprise visitors after splashing down this afternoon.🐬 pic.twitter.com/yuOxtTsSLV
Stranded after a malfunction with the Boeing Starliner that brought them to the International Space Station, Williams and Wilmore spent an unplanned 280 days in space before finally being relieved by the new Crew 10 mission astronauts.
It was a return that had Earthlings of all shapes and sizes celebrating. At the onset of the operation to open the capsule there were just two dolphins.
But more arrived soon, and the NASA live commentator repeatedly mentioned them to her listeners. “Wow, we’ve got a cute little pod of dolphins not just one or two.”
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