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Starliner astronauts head back to Earth with SpaceX Crew-9 duo to make long-awaited landing (video)
• Space.comButch 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.
You can watch the splashdown action live via NASA. Space.com will carry the feed as well.
The NASA stream will pick up at 4:45 p.m. EDT (2045 GMT) on Tuesday for descent operations. Freedom will conduct a deorbit burn at 5:11 p.m. EDT (2111 GMT), then splash down off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico 46 minutes later. (President Donald Trump has signed an executive order renaming the body of water the Gulf of America.)




