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Astronaut Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore undocks Dragon to depart from Space Station

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NASA astronauts Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore and Crew-9 members have initiated their Earth return sequence after undocking the Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station.

On March 18 at 12:05 a.m. CT, NASA and SpaceX conducted an undocking lead by Crew-9 commander Nick Hague along with Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.

After this, the spacecraft will now perform a series of departure burns to move away from the Space Station and reenter Earth’s atmosphere. There it will deploy the parachutes and mark a splashdown in the Ocean. According to NASA, the crew splashdown off the coast of Florida at approximately 5:57 p.m.

The two astronauts have been stranded on the Space Station since June 2024. They’re up there for a short duration trip with Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which occurred with internal issues and extending the trip to nearly 10 months.

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Mel Trivalo is a senior author at EONMSK.com, he began his early career in electronics in 2021 and turned his attention towards Space and Rocket Science. Mel likes to explore new technologies and swings baseball to run through creative thoughts.

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