The Crew-9 mission's Dragon capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, and was greeted by a pod of dolphins. The capsule carried four astronauts, including NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Aleksandr Gorbunov of Roscosmos. The return marked the end of a long space saga for Williams and Wilmore, who were initially part of Boeing's Starliner mission but were brought back on SpaceX's Crew-9 mission. The splashdown also signified the last time a Dragon capsule will land near the U.S. East Coast, as SpaceX is moving its recovery operations to the West Coast.