The return date of Sunita Williams confirms: when and where you can watch Earth Splashdown

The two astronauts have been in space for more than nine months because their Boeing startliner rocket was faced with drive problems. The duo went into space for a period of only eight days in June last year.

According to the recent announcement by NASA, Williams and Wilmore will return to Earth on Tuesday evening (Florida period). Arrangements were made for enthusiasts to watch the splashdown live.

When and where you can watch Sunita Williams' return to earth

The SpaceX Dragon Rocket will bring Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back onto the earth on Tuesday evening, with the splashdown at 5:57 p.m. EST. The duo will land more than nine months after returning to Florida.

The return of the Dragon Capsule was originally planned for Wednesday, but NASA decided to move it up a day, since “less favorable weather conditions are expected for later a week”.

NASA revealed that she would do the return of Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore live streaming. The cover begins on Monday at 10:45 p.m. EST with preparations for the slip closure.

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spaces ship reached the ISS with the replacement team on Sunday. It docked shortly after midnight ET (9:34 a.m.) with an astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut on board.

The replacement team will be handed over to the earth in front of Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. Together with the stranded duo, the NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov will also return to earth.

After the Boeing Starlin had not brought back the stranded astronauts despite several attempts, US President Donald Trump commissioned the SpaceX for the job.

While the two astronauts stayed in space much longer than the originally planned eight days, they did not destroy the US record for the longest stay. That still belongs to Frank Rubio, who stayed on board the station for 371 days in 2023. The world record was set up by Russia Valeri Polyakov, who remained on board the Space Station for astonishing 437 days in 1994-95.