Watch the Boeing Starliner astronauts return to Earth today

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission lifted off successfully Friday night, taking its crew of four on their way to the International Space Station. Now that it’s there, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have started the ride back home to Earth after being stranded aboard the ISS for nine months. The astronauts are returning on the Crew-9 capsule today, along with two astronauts from that mission.

NASA’s livestream of their landing is scheduled to begin at 4:45PM ET, and they are expected to splash down off the coast of Florida at around 5:57PM ET.

Their Boeing Starliner mission that launched to the ISS on June 5th, 2024, was only supposed to last eight days, but issues like thruster failures and helium leaks made it unsafe to return to Earth using Starliner. The spacecraft safely returned, empty, in September.

Follow along here for all of the updates on the Crew-10 launch, as well as the return flight of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.

• The Starliner astronauts are on their way back to Earth.
• Watch NASA’s Starliner astronauts greet the Crew-10 mission that will relieve them.
• SpaceX Crew-10 has launched.
• Hatch door closed, again.
• The Crew-10 astronauts have returned to the launchpad.
• NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission is scheduled for launch, again.
• NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission won’t launch tonight.
• The Crew-10 launch approaches, and Dragon’s hatch is closed.
• SpaceX is pausing Falcon 9 flights after issues following its Crew-9 launch.
• NASA’s Crew-9 mission that will bring the Starliner astronauts home launches today.
• NASA’s Starliner astronauts don’t feel ‘let down’ by Boeing’s spacecraft
• Boeing Starliner has completed its lonely return to Earth
• Boeing Starliner is finally on its way back.
• Boeing’s Starliner started making a repeating ‘pulsing’ sound Saturday
• NASA shuffles Crew-9 team that will bring Starliner crew home
• NASA will bring the Starliner astronauts home next year on SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission
• Boeing Starliner astronauts might get a ride home from SpaceX — in 2025