NASA Astronauts Stranded At ISS Splash Down In Return To Earth

NASA Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrive home.

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00:00And that view is from the WB 57 which is one of NASA's high-altitude planes that

00:06is tracking now because of the way that this camera is configured it does look

00:11like it is dark but it is indeed daytime and you're beginning to see that plasma

00:15trail as Dragon re-enters the Earth's atmosphere all of that is expected we

00:20are anticipating an acquisition of signal around 2 51 p.m. Pacific Time so

00:26just minutes from now and you may hear the core begin to hail out or call

00:31Dragon for communications and see if we can potentially get communications with

00:36them a little bit earlier following this we'll have two events in rapid succession

00:40we'll have the drogue parachutes deploy at 2 53 p.m. Pacific followed by the

00:45mains just one minute later deploys this view coming from the WB 57 high-altitude

00:51plane and there you see it on your screen drogue deployment

01:05the crowd here very excited as Dragon freedom continues to make its way back

01:11to planet Earth

01:21next up we'll stand by for the main deployment of the parachutes the mains

01:26are quite a bit larger you'll be able to notice the difference on your screen

01:29once they deploy and they continue to ensure that the Dragon spacecraft slows

01:34down even further as we mentioned freedom will be traveling 16 copy 200

01:41meters brace for splashdown

01:44as you can see there on your screen continuing to monitor progress of the

01:55Dragon spacecraft and we're going to stand by for splashdown located in the

02:02Gulf of America off the coast of Tallahassee Florida

02:08and splashdown crew nine back on Earth