NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon capsule as NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 crew members return to Earth on March 18, 2025. Dragon is scheduled to splashdown in the Gulf of America, off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, at 5:57 p.m. EDT.
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft completed its deorbit burn at 5:18 p.m. EDT.
NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, and Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov are less than an hour away from a splashdown off the coast of Florida.
Four minutes before splashdown, the drogue parachutes will deploy at about 18,000 feet in altitude while Dragon is moving approximately 350 miles per hour. Less than a minute later, the main parachutes will deploy at about 6,000 feet in altitude while the spacecraft is moving approximately 119 miles per hour.