NASA’s Crew-9 homecoming: Watch the Splashdown Live Here

NASA provides live coverage of SpaceX Crew-9 return to Earth from ISS, with hatch closure at 10:45 p.m. EDT.

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 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.

On March 16, 2025, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. The four newcomers — Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will spend the next few days learning the station’s ins and outs from Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

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The stranded duo have been on the ISS since June after the Boeing Starliner spacecraft they were testing on its maiden crewed voyage suffered propulsion issues and was deemed unfit to fly them back to Earth.

Following the conclusion of undocking coverage, NASA will switch to audio only. Pending weather conditions at the splashdown sites, continuous coverage will resume on March 18 on NASA+ prior to the start of deorbit burn.

NASA said in a statement on Sunday evening that it had moved forward the astronauts’ anticipated ocean splashdown off the Florida coast to approximately 5.57 p.m. Tuesday (2157 GMT). It was initially slated for no sooner than Wednesday.