Astronauts splash back down on Earth after 9 months aboard the ISS

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On the evening of March 18, the Freedom capsule carrying Crew-9 entered the atmosphere of Earth and descended to the Gulf of America, splashing down off the coast of Florida.

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00:00This view coming from the WB-57 high altitude plane, and there you see it on your screen,

00:05drogue deployment. You can hear the crowd here.

00:16Here at 2 57 p.m pacific time this afternoon, and there we go. We have visual on four healthy mains.

00:23That view was from inside,

00:31that view was from inside one of the buckets where the parachutes are located. So we see a

00:36great view there of the reefing on those parachutes, and as those parachutes, those

00:42main parachutes begin to inflate fully, we can see the crew there using their restraints

00:49as resting places for their arms. They were just in space moments ago,

00:55so their arms were able to float freely.

01:00400 meters, and we're going to stand by for splashdown,

01:05located in the Gulf of America off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida.

01:10And splashdown, crew nine back on earth.

01:31And SpaceX Freedom, splashdown. Good main release. Copy splashdown, we see main chutes cut.

01:40Nick, Alex, Butch, Sonny, on behalf of SpaceX, welcome home.

02:02And as you can see on your screen, we have visual confirmation of splashdown. Dragon

02:08Freedom has returned home and NASA astronauts. System safety verifications are in progress.

02:13We'll report back when recovery personnel are en route.

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