Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore touched down on Earth March 18 after a nine-month stay in space, but they didn’t get to experience the full effects of gravity right away. Find out why.

Stranded NASA astronauts Sunita 'Suni' Williams and Barry 'Butch' Wilmore finally returned home yesterday, but why were they ...

“A lot of them don't want to be brought out on a stretcher,” former NASA senior scientist John DeWitt told Live Science, “but ...

This is why astronauts are usually carried away on a stretcher after landing. Sunita Williams' post-landing struggles are a stark reminder of the physical toll space travel takes on the human body.

Williams and Wilmore were wheeled off the spacecraft on stretchers, a standard practice for NASA astronauts, according to E!

Within an hour of splashing down off the coast of Tallahassee in the Florida Panhandle, the astronauts were out of their ...

Following the landing, both astronauts were brought out on stretchers, a common practice to help them readjust to life on ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after a nine-month ISS mission. Arriving via SpaceX Dragon capsule, they were placed on stretchers as a safety measure.

As commentators explained during NASA's livestream, the astronauts were placed onto stretchers – standard protocol after long-duration spaceflights – and taken to receive medical examinations.

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