The astronauts disembarked the capsule on stretchers, as is customary, as per CNN. This is a common precaution SpaceX always takes when astronauts return from months-long journeys to space.
This came after the successful splashdown of the Dragon spacecraft, bringing Sunita Williams back to Earth along with Crew-9 members Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. They had spent nearly nine months in space.
A CORE -- a "crew operations resource engineer" -- at SpaceX's headquarters in California confirmed the target touchdown time remains on track for 5:57 pm (ET), as per CNN.
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NASA posted the development on X, "They're on their way! Crew 9 undocked from the Space Station at 1.05 am ET (0505 UTC). Reentry and splashdown coverage begin on X, YouTube, and NASA+ at 4.45 pm ET (2145 UTC) this evening."
Williams and Wilmore are scheduled to travel back to Earth alongside Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams are set to return to Earth after over nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Nilesh M. Desai of SAC explains that crew missions, unlike cargo missions, bring astronauts back to Earth.