On Tuesday, two NASA astronauts who had been in orbit since June, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, splashed down in calm, ...

In August, NASA officials decided that the Starliner spacecraft that had carried Ms. Williams and Mr. Wilmore to orbit would return to Earth empty. They then juggled astronaut assignments so that Ms.

The phone call between the Russian and US presidents came as the US pushes for an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.