Sunita Williams Latest News | 8 days to 9 months: Sunita Williams smile, waves, as she returns to home astronaut Sunita Williams and Buch Willmore, left her eight-day mission for nine months to bring her back after returning home after her eight-day mission at the international space station. He flew a Boeing Starlineer in space on 5 June last year and returned to SpaceX’s dragon spacecraft this morning. Space capsules deployed their parachutes before a splashadown at the sea from the coast of Florida. The two astronauts traveled at their journey home for 17 hours with NASA’s Nick Hague, and Rososmos Cosmonot Alexander Gorbunov.