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Irish Daily Star
|March 20, 2025
Stranded astronauts welcomed home by dolphins but face tough recovery after nine months in space
RESCUED astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore arrived back on Earth to be greeted by dolphins.
Moments after their SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in Donald Trump's newly-named Gulf of America, it was surrounded by a pod of the inquisitive marine mammals.
Many viewers were moved to tears by the extraordinary sight.
The welcome was so out-of-this-world some social media sceptics claimed the creatures must have been computer-generated.
One wrote on X: 'The dolphins' welcome home was a nice touch. Hats off to the @SpaceX CGI team.'
This story is from the March 20, 2025 edition of Irish Daily Star.
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