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WHERE MANY ARE CELEBRATING THE HOMECOMING. TODD JENNIFER AND DOUG. GOOD MORNING. IT CERTAINLY WAS A HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF FOR ALL OF THE FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS LOVED ONES HERE IN NEEDHAM. PEOPLE WHO REALLY CARE ABOUT SUNI WILLIAMS AND HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS JOURNEY FOR THESE NINE AND A HALF MONTHS. IT WAS ALSO A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT, A HUGE THRILL OF ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR NASA AND FOR THE FLIGHT CREW AND THE SCIENTISTS INVOLVED. WITH FOUR GIANT PARACHUTES DEPLOYED THE SPACE CAPSULE SPLASHED DOWN IN THE WATERS NEAR TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, JUST BEFORE 6:00 LAST NIGHT AS PEOPLE AT NASA’S MISSION CONTROL IN HOUSTON ERUPTED IN CHEERS. AND THEN SUNI WILLIAMS, BUTCH WILMORE AND TWO OTHER ASTRONAUTS ARE SEEN WAVING AND SMILING AS THEY WERE HELPED OUT OF THE CAPSULE AND PUT ONTO STRETCHERS. WILLIAMS AND WILMORE EIGHT DAY JOURNEY TURNED INTO MORE THAN NINE MONTHS IN SPACE AFTER THEIR BOEING STARLINER SUFFERED SERIOUS MECHANICAL ISSUES. EXPERTS SAY THEIR BODIES HAVE CHANGED WHILE IN SPACE, AND THEY’LL HAVE TO RETRAIN TO EARTH’S GRAVITY. WHEN YOU’RE LIVING IN A LONG DURATION MICROGRAVITY MISSION, YOU DO LOSE SOME OF YOUR MUSCLE MASS. YOUR HEART WEAKENS BECAUSE IT’S NOT HAVING TO PUMP YOUR BLOOD AGAINST THE FORCE OF GRAVITY. AND EVEN FUNNY THINGS LIKE YOUR EYESIGHT CAN CHANGE BECAUSE THE SHAPE OF YOUR EYEBALL IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IN MICROGRAVITY. WELL, FOR ALL OF THOSE REASONS AND MORE, NOW THAT THEY’RE BACK ON EARTH, WILLIAMS AND WILMORE WILL GO THROUGH A MEDICAL EVALUATION BEFORE THEY’RE REUNITED WITH THEIR FAMILIES. NASA ALSO SAYS IT WILL TEST THE ASTRONAUTS TO LEARN HOW THEIR BODIES CHANGED OVER TIME. AND IN TERMS OF WHAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED DURING THE NINE AND A HALF MONTHS. SUNI WILLIAMS SET A RECORD THE RECORD SHE BROKE THE RECORD FOR THE MOST TIME ON SPACEWALKS FOR A WOMAN 62 HOURS AND SIX MINUTES. REPORTING LIVE THIS MORNING AT THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HERE IN NEEDHAM THAT BEARS HER NAME. TODD KAZAKIEWICH. WCVB NEWSCENTER 5. A.R.T. TODD. IT WAS THRILLING TO WATCH. AND OVER AT THE COMMON ROOM IN NEEDHAM, IT WAS PACKED AS LOCALS WERE TAKING IN THE SPLASHDOWN LAST NIGHT. A TEACHER AT THE SCHOOL, NAMED AFTER SUNI WILLIAMS, WARE TODD WINCHESTER, SAYS HER KIDS MADE SIGNS TO CELEBRATE THE HOMETOWN HEROES RETURN. I WENT TO TO HER FIRST TWO LAUNCH ATTEMPTS THAT DIDN’T MAKE IT. AND I DIDN’T GET TO GO TO THE LAST ONE WHERE SHE DID GO UP. BUT I’VE BEEN WATCHING AND FOLLOWING MY CLASS WATCHES AND FOLLOWS. THEY WERE SO EXCITED TODAY AND NOW I’M LIKE, OVER THE TOP, OVER THE MOON AND SO EXCITED. I JUST CAN’T BELIEVE SHE’S BACK OVER THE MOON. I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. MANY PEOPLE SAY THEY FEEL RELIEVED