Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are heading back to Earth after an unexpectedly long and eventful space mission, and you can watch their homecoming live.
Wilmore, Williams, fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov departed the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule “Freedom” early Tuesday morning (March 18), setting up their splashdown off the coast of Florida later the same day.
The undocking occurred at 1:05 a.m. EDT (0505 GMT) as the two vehicles were 261 statute miles (420 kilometers) above Earth off the coast of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.
“It was a privilege to call [the] station home, to live and work and be a part of a mission and team that spans the globe working together in cooperation for the benefit of humanity,” said Hague, Freedom’s commander. “Crew 9 is going home.”
Source:https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/boeing-starliner-astronauts-spacex-crew-9-return-to-earth
