It was a homecoming that made everyone – and everything – flip for joy.

The marine mammals swarmed around the recovery team and capsule, welcoming home the astronauts shortly after they splashed ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore got a warm welcome from a pod of dolphins when they returned from nine months ...

Dolphins surrounded the SpaceX capsule after it landed in the ocean on the NASA astronauts' successful journey home after ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth after nine months stranded in space and were greeted by a ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after nine months on board the International Space Station ...

A pod of curious dolphins showed up to greet the returning SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts shortly after they splashed down off the ...

NASA's webcast host, said in the livestream. "Recovering a spacecraft from the water is a hazardous task." The dolphins paid no mind to the safety zone, though. Luckily, they didn't seem to ...

The NASA SpaceX Crew-9 splashdown off Florida's Gulf Coast had a unique group of spectators: A pod of dolphins. Maybe our aquatic friends were trying to tell the astronauts they shouldn't have ...

Wilmore, Williams, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov were greeted by a pod of dolphins that circled the capsule in the clear blue waters as divers readied it for ...