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Live on NASA+: Dragon Prepares to Undock With Four SpaceX Crew-9 Members

NASA’s live coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 undocking now is underway on NASA+. At 11:05 p.m. EDT on March 17, the crew closed the hatch between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for undocking and the return of NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, to Earth. 

 The spacecraft will undock from the orbiting laboratory about 1:05 a.m. on Tuesday, heading for a targeted splashdown at 5:57 p.m. off the coast of Florida. 

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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SpaceX Crew-9 Quartet Enters Dragon and Closes Hatch

At 11:05 p.m. EDT, the hatch closed between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station in preparation for the return of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission.

NASA’s undocking coverage begins at 12:45 a.m., Tuesday, March 18, on NASA+. The spacecraft will autonomously undock from the orbiting laboratory at approximately 1:05 a.m. to begin the return to Earth. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

At the conclusion of undocking coverage, NASA will switch to real-time audio-only until live Crew-9 return coverage resumes at 4:45 p.m. Tuesday on NASA+.

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 the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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NASA+ is Live as SpaceX Crew-9 Prepares for Undocking

NASA’s live coverage is underway on NASA+ ahead of hatch closure and undocking preparations for the return of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission.

NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, will close the hatch at approximately 11:15 p.m. EDT Monday between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station.

NASA will provide live undocking coverage at 12:45 a.m., Tuesday, March 18, on NASA+. The spacecraft will autonomously undock from the space station at 1:05 a.m. to begin the roughly 17-hour return to Earth.

The Crew-9 mission is targeting a splashdown at approximately 5:57 p.m. March 18 off the coast of Florida. NASA will provide coverage of deorbit burn, entry, and landing beginning at 4:45 p.m. on NASA+.

As part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, the Crew-9 mission will return important and time-sensitive research to Earth after completing a long-duration science mission aboard the orbiting laboratory. Hague and Gorbunov lifted off at 1:17 p.m. Sept. 28, 2024, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The next day, Dragon docked to the forward-facing port of the station’s Harmony module. Williams and Wilmore launched aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on June 5, 2024, from Space Launch Complex 41 as part of the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test. The duo arrived at the space station on June 6. In August, NASA announced the uncrewed return of Starliner to Earth and integrated Wilmore and Williams as part of the space station’s Expedition 71/72 for a return on Crew-9.

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Four Dragon Crewmates Prepare to Depart Station and Return to Earth

There are 11 crewmates aboard the International Space Station today but that will soon change when four SpaceX Crew-9 members depart for a return to Earth on Tuesday, weather permitting.

NASA’s Crew-9 Commander Nick Hague will lead NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov back to Earth inside the Dragon spacecraft. The quartet will undock from the Harmony module’s space-facing port at 1:05 a.m. EDT on Tuesday and splash down off the coast of Florida at approximately 5:57 p.m. NASA+ begins its coverage at 10:45 p.m. on Monday as the crew prepares to close Dragon’s hatch scheduled for 11:15 p.m.

Meanwhile, Hague and Gorbunov were still busy on Monday with advanced space research as they finished a pair human research experiments. Hague attached electrodes to his legs and explored electrical muscle stimulation as a supplement to space exercise. Gorbunov tested the lower body negative pressure suit that may help pull fluids from the upper body and counteract space-caused head and eye pressure. Wilmore and Williams spent their final station shift on standard lab maintenance and inspection tasks. Finally, the Earthbound crewmates packed and secured cargo inside Dragon for the ride home.

The orbital outpost’s newest crew joined Expedition 72 after docking to Harmony’s forward port at 12:04 a.m. inside the SpaceX Dragon then opening the station’s hatch and entering the orbital lab at 1:35 a.m. on Sunday. They launched from the Kennedy Space Center at 7:03 p.m. on Friday. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov are beginning their months-long space research mission as flight engineers and will spend several days getting used to life on orbit.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner are due to leave the space station in April when they board the Soyuz MS-26 crew ship, undock from the Rassvet module, and parachute to a landing in Kazakhstan. They will wait for the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft to arrive a couple of weeks before carrying NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky. The Expedition 73 mission will begin when the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft undocks next month.

The International Space Station is orbiting higher today after the Progress 91 spacecraft fired it engines for eight minutes and 53 seconds on Monday. The orbital reboost positions the station at the correct altitude for April’s Soyuz crew swap activities.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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Dragon Crew Enters Station and Joins Expedition 72 Crew

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov entered the International Space Station shortly after opening the hatches between the space station and the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at 1:35 a.m. EDT.

McClain, Ayers, Onishi, and Peskov were welcomed by the Expedition 72 crew, including NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Don Petitt, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner.

NASA’s live coverage continues through Crew-10 welcome remarks and Crew-9 farewell remarks aboard the station on NASA+. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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