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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9: Crew Preparing for Splashdown [1]

['Elyna Niles-Carnes']

Date: 2025-03-18

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9: Crew Preparing for Splashdown

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 prepares for splashdown on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. NASA+

Live NASA+ coverage is underway as agency astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, are about one hour away from splashing down aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

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The deorbit burn is scheduled to begin at 5:11 p.m. EDT. Splashdown remains on schedule for approximately 5:57 p.m. Weather conditions remain within the splashdown weather criteria and are “go” at the primary targeted site in the Gulf of America, near Tallahassee, Florida.

Learn more about the mission by following the commercial crew blog, @commercial_crew on X, and commercial crew on Facebook.

Learn more about station activities by following @space_station and @ISS_Research on X and the International Space Station’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.

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