Nearly a year after astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left for space on the troubled Boeing Starliner, promising weather conditions off of the Florida coast offer a silver lining.
The Middle Tennessee native and his counterpart are set to make their trek home a few hours sooner than anticipated. The pair will join two members of Crew-9 on a SpaceX Dragon capsule, which is expected undock late evening from the International Space Station on Monday, March 17. After a 17-hour flight, the astronauts should land on Earth at around 4:57 p.m. CT the following day.
You can watch the undocking process via the NASA+ streaming service beginning at 11:45 p.m. on Monday. The platform will document the spacecraft’s return around 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday, March 18.
