IN PHOTOS: As Sunita Williams returns to Earth, her family celebrates in Gujarat

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned early Wednesday (Indian time) aboard SpaceX's Crew-9 mission, splashing down off the coast of Florida. With origins in India, Williams' family celebrated here in their village. Here are heartwarming glimpses from the ceebrations

Updated On: 2025-03-19 01:04 PM IST

Compiled by : Nascimento Pinto

A SpaceX capsule carrying Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore splashed down off the US coast on Wednesday morning. Photo Courtesy: PTI/AP
A SpaceX capsule carrying Williams and her colleague Butch Wilmore splashed down off the US coast on Wednesday morning. Photo Courtesy: PTI/AP
Residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams' ancestral village Jhulasan celebrate upon her safe return to earth from the International Space Station (ISS), in Mehsana district, Gujarat, early Wednesday morning, March 19

Residents of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams' ancestral village Jhulasan celebrate upon her safe return to earth from the International Space Station (ISS), in Mehsana district, Gujarat, early Wednesday morning, March 19

Villagers light fire crackers and dance as they celebrate the safe return of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams from the International Space Station (ISS), at a temple in her ancestral village Jhulasan in Mehsana district of Gujarat

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams' cousin Dinesh Rawal speaks with the media upon her safe return to earth from the International Space Station (ISS), in Ahmedabad, early Wednesday morning

Williams' cousin Dinesh Rawal celebrates with family upon her safe return to earth from the International Space Station (ISS), in Ahmedabad

Williams' cousin Dinesh Rawal on Wednesday said that the NASA astronaut will change the world as she is not an ordinary person

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