Astronauts Suni WIlliams and Butch WIlmore are expected to arrive back to earth this morning after a 17-hour journey in the four-person crewed SpaceX Dragon Capsule.
The pair have spent 286 days onboard the International Space Station more than nine months after the failure of Boeing's Starliner capsule hindered their originally scheduled week-long mission.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule containing Williams and Wilmore, along with their colleagues Aleksandr Gorbunov and Nick Hague, undocked from the orbiting outpost at 3:05pm AEST yesterday.
The crew is scheduled to splash down off the coast of Florida at around **7:57am AEST this morning.**
Follow along live.
5m agoTue 18 Mar 2025 at 8:42pm
NASA has begun livestreaming in the lead-up to the Dragon Capsules Re-entry to the atmosphere and splashdown.
Watch it here:
42m agoTue 18 Mar 2025 at 8:05pm
Good morning and welcome to today's live coverage of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 Re-entry and splashdown,
Yesterday, NASA astronauts **Butch Wilmore** and **Suni Williams** departed the International Space Station in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after their faulty Boeing BA.N Starliner craft up-ended what was to be an eight-day-long test mission.
Mr Wilmore and Ms Williams, two veteran NASA astronauts and retired US Navy test pilots, strapped inside their Crew Dragon spacecraft alongside two other astronauts and undocked from the orbiting laboratory at **1:05am US Eastern Time ET (3:05pm AEST Tuesday).**
The four-person crew is currently on a 17-hour trip back to Earth and are scheduled for a splashdown off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico at **7:57am AEST today.**
We will bring you all the updates from the de-orbit burn and splashdown this morning.
Posted 7m ago7 minutes agoTue 18 Mar 2025 at 8:40pm