SpaceX Founder Elon Musk's First Reaction On Crew-9 Return To Earth After Nine Months Aboard ISS

SpaceX Founder Elon Musk's First Reaction On Crew-9 Return To Earth After Nine Months Aboard ISS: NASA astronauts who carried out the Crew-9 mission on the International Space Station (ISS) which include Sunita Williams, Nick Hagur, Butch Wilmore and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, splashdown off the coast of Florida on SpaceX's Dragon capsule at 3:27 am IST, Wednesday.

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Elon Musk's first reaction on splashdown of SpaceX's Dragon capsule

SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk takes delight in the safe return of the NASA astronauts by posting on X, “Congratulations to the SpaceX and NASA teams for another safe astronaut return!” The tech mogul also expressed gratitude to President Donald Trump in the same post, writing, “Thank you to POTUS for prioritizing this mission!"

Reaction of netizens

NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Commander Sunita Williams along with her comrade Butch Wilmore were stuck aboard International Space Station (ISS) for nine months for what was known to be a quick test flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule in June 2024. Their safe return was only made possible by the intensive work of NASA, supported by Elon Musk's owned SpaceX.

Many netizens hailed the tech mogul for his contribution to bringing back the stranded astronauts. One X user writes “Thank you for bringing the astronauts safe back home. Humanity is grateful and so are the dolphins!”.

Another X user chimes in, “Thank you Elon Musk. You did what will go down as a historically dope moment of 2025.”

“Fantastic Job Elon! Congratulations and thank you for bringing our astronauts safely back home! Landing in the Gulf of America surrounded by dolphins! Truly spectacular and amazing!", adds X user.

Lauding praise for his “unwavering strength, patience and perseverance for 25+ years” another X user writes, “Thank you Elon Musk for your visionary leadership since 2002”.