After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the best.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were barely known outside space circles when they strapped in for what was supposed to be a ...

Massachusetts native Suni Williams and her crewmates splashed down aboard a SpaceX capsule on Tuesday, concluding a dramatic ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months.

Their first flights were aboard NASA's space shuttle, followed by Russia's Soyuz ... he launched in it last September with a Russian and two empty seats reserved for Wilmore and Williams.

The two empty seats will be filled with Wilmore and Williams ... having flown the first space shuttle flight on top of two Gemini and two Apollo missions. On Apollo 16, Young walked on the moon ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months.

Wilmore first flew to space in 2009 on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis ... with two empty seats left for Wilmore and Williams’s return. The four could not return on the same capsule until ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left the International Space Station in a SpaceX capsule early Tuesday, checking out with the cosmonaut and astronaut.

The astronauts' return will close out a dramatic marathon mission that began with a bungled test flight of Boeing's Starliner ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams bid farewell to the International Space Station — their home since last spring.