After a recovery ship pulled the capsule from the water, the pair smiled and waved as they were helped through the hatch and took their first breaths of fresh air in months.
Steve Stich, manager, NASA's Commercial Crew Program, said at a news conference: ‘The crew’s doing great.’
The returning astronauts were then loaded onto stretchers, which is standard practice for astronauts returning from space after being weakened by their time in microgravity.
Following their initial health checks, Williams and Wilmore will be flown to their crew quarters at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston for several more days of routine health checks.
If given the all-clear by NASA’s flight surgeons they will finally be able to return to their families, 286 days after setting out on a trip that was supposed to last just eight.
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