* Watch the Splashdown of NASA’s Crew-9 homecoming Live Here
NASA will provide a live coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 return to Earth from the International Space Station, beginning with Dragon spacecraft hatch closure preparations at 10:45 p.m. EDT on Monday, March 17. You can check the schedule on https://www.nasa.gov/live
NASA and SpaceX launched a crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) to bring home NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded in space since last June.
_[Read the whole story here](https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/nasas-crew-9-homecoming-watch-the-splashdown-live-here/article69339762.ece)_
* Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore to return to Earth on March 18: NASA
A pair of U.S. astronauts stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station (ISS) will be returned to Earth on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) evening, NASA said.
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are to be transported home with another American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft, which arrived at the ISS early on Sunday.
_[Read the whole story here](https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/sunita-williams-butch-wilmore-to-return-to-earth-on-march-18-nasa/article69338870.ece)_
Published \- March 17, 2025 05:53 pm IST