Watch as the four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission—NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov—begin the final preparations for their return to Earth, currently targeted for Tuesday, March 18.
After entering their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, the spacecraft's hatch will be closed on the Crew-9 explorers. After hatch closure, Crew-9 is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station at 1:05 a.m. EDT (0505 UTC) on Tuesday, March 18.
See the full schedule for Crew-9's return to Earth: https://go.nasa.gov/4iWeg8N
Learn more about Crew-9's scientific mission: https://go.nasa.gov/4bWdt5u
Follow the latest Crew-9 mission updates: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/
Credit: NASA
After entering their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, the spacecraft's hatch will be closed on the Crew-9 explorers. After hatch closure, Crew-9 is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station at 1:05 a.m. EDT (0505 UTC) on Tuesday, March 18.
See the full schedule for Crew-9's return to Earth: https://go.nasa.gov/4iWeg8N
Learn more about Crew-9's scientific mission: https://go.nasa.gov/4bWdt5u
Follow the latest Crew-9 mission updates: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/commercialcrew/
Credit: NASA
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01:30I feel the liftoff, the clock has started.
01:51We have a liftoff. Roger, zero G, I feel fine.
01:56Godspeed, John Glenn.
01:59Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
02:04Roger, Tranquility, we copy you on the ground.
02:07New possibilities are opening up for scientific cooperation between countries.
02:12Two, one, zero.
02:15Liftoff!
02:17Liftoff! America's precursor to space as Discovery clears the tower.
02:22Discovery, go at throttle up.
02:24Discovery, roger, go for deploy.
02:26Thanks to and to everybody in the shuttle program, the crew is go for launch.
02:30Roger, no problem, we'll be in orbit.
02:32We are now in the process to get into a wheelchair.
02:41Good evening from Mission Control in Houston in the International Space Station Flight Control Room at the Johnson Space Center.
02:56As we go on the air, you are looking live at the passageway between the Harmony module of the International Space Station
03:02and the connecting tunnel leading to the SpaceX Dragon Freedom that is housed at the moment on the zenith or space-facing side of the Harmony module.
03:13It is through that passageway that NASA astronauts Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore,
03:18along with NASA astronaut Nick Haig, the Dragon commander,
03:22and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov will be floating through a short time from now,
03:27closing the hatch behind them and making final preparations for their undocking from the International Space Station
03:35that is scheduled at 12.05 a.m. Central Time, 1.05 a.m. Eastern Time,
03:41the home stretch for Williams and Wilmore to complete an extended nine-and-a-half-month mission in space.
03:48Thank you for joining us this evening.
03:50This is a momentous night to begin the journey home for Crew Nine.
03:54Williams and Wilmore, having launched back on June 5 on a Boeing Starliner spacecraft,
04:00propulsion system issues resulted in a decision by NASA to bring Williams and Wilmore home on the SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft.
04:10Crew Nine, that meaning Haig and Gorbunov, launched with two empty seats aboard Freedom back in late September,
04:17clearing the way for Williams and Wilmore to join them on the ride home,
04:21the beginning of which will occur just about two hours and 12 minutes from now
04:27with the undocking of Freedom from that space-facing port on the Harmony module.
04:32At the time that the Dragon splashes down in the Gulf of America off the Gulf Coast late Tuesday afternoon,
04:45Williams and Wilmore will have spent 286 days in space,
04:49285 of which aboard the International Space Station.
04:53They will have completed 4,576 orbits of the Earth in a mission spanning 121.3 million statute miles.
05:02Haig and Gorbunov's, their mission duration, 171 days,
05:07170 days of which aboard the International Space Station.
05:11Their mission will have spanned 2,736 orbits of the Earth, 72.5 million statute miles.
05:19The Crew Nine departing crew, they have donned their garments, their undergarments, if you will,
05:27Nick Haig, just off on the right side of your screen.
05:30They will be assisted through that hatchway to close the hatch behind them.
05:35That hatch closure expected about 30 minutes, perhaps a bit less than that.
05:40Freedom, Houston, on two, standby for big loop audio config.
05:50And copies, and I'll need two minutes before I can do a comm check.
05:55We copy.
05:59Spacecraft communicator Tess Caswell here in Mission Control in Houston, part of the Orbit 3 team,
06:05who will be talking to the crew members as they complete the hatch closure
06:09and then subsequently the undocking of the International Space Station.
06:13She is part of that Orbit 3 team that is led by Flight Director Marcos Flores tonight.
06:19He is the lead flight director for the Crew Nine mission.
06:22In the foreground popping in and out of the field of view is NASA astronaut Anne McClain,
06:27the commander of the Dragon Endurance that automatically docked to the forward port of the Harmony module
06:34in the wee hours of Sunday morning to initiate about one-plus days of handover activities with the Crew Nine crew.
06:41The abbreviated handover was specifically designed to provide as many undocking opportunities as possible for Crew Nine
06:49and the decision to bring the Crew Nine crew back to Earth on Tuesday was dictated by what is forecast to be pristine weather conditions
06:58at the various landing sites in the Gulf of America that the Dragon Freedom will be coming home to
07:06late Tuesday afternoon with splashdown scheduled at 4-57 p.m. Central Time, 5-57 p.m. Eastern Time.
07:20Nick Hague, the commander of the Dragon Freedom, floating through the hatchway.
07:26We will see Williams and Wilmore shortly as they are completing their suit-up activities.
07:34The final suit-up will take place once the four crew members are inside Dragon
07:39and the hatch is closed between Dragon and the International Space Station.
07:42The station hatch on that side of the docking interface will be closed after the Dragon hatch is closed.
07:50Wilmore and Williams have performed informal suit and seat fit checks on orbit using two spare suits on the International Space Station.
07:59The SpaceX team supported this effort and gathered data to make an informed decision on the suits that they would wear on the ride home and the seat sizing.
08:07A new suit was actually flown up for Butch Wilmore on the Crew-9 mission that arrived on the station at the end of September.
08:15Wilmore and Williams also performed suit donning and doffing activities to familiarize themselves with the suits and with Dragon's systems
08:24during the handover between Crew-8 and Crew-9 back in September.
08:29And this is not new activity for Williams and Wilmore.
08:34They actually were aboard in those suits during a port relocation that transferred the Freedom spacecraft, the Dragon Freedom,
08:44from the forward port of Harmony to the zenith port of Harmony back in November.
08:58Once Williams, Wilmore, Haig and Gorbunov depart the International Space Station just over two hours from now,
09:14the seven crew members left aboard the International Space Station will continue the Expedition 72 increment
09:21led by the commander of the station, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin,
09:25joined by his cosmonaut colleagues Ivan Vagner and Kirill Peskov,
09:30Peskov having just arrived on the station as part of Crew-10.
09:34Also continuing on in orbit, NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nicole Ayers and Don Pettit,
09:41and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi.
09:46Don Pettit will be coming home in late April, April 19th in fact, U.S. time,
09:52on the Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft that he rode to orbit in along with Ovchinin and Vagner from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
10:04The International Space Station is currently flying 260 miles above the Earth,
10:09currently crossing the southeastern coast of Africa, moving in a trajectory from northwest to southeast
10:16in an orbit inclined 51.6 degrees to either side of the equator.
10:22NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
10:52At the SpaceX Mission Control Room in Hawthorne, California,
11:14the SpaceX flight controllers are reporting that all of Freedom's systems are in excellent shape.
11:19Nick Hague there as you see on your screen stowing some last-minute items
11:25aboard the Dragon spacecraft that he is commanding from undocking through splashdown.
11:33The weather has been monitored for the splashdown sites in the Gulf of America throughout the day.
11:40The reports continue to be that the weather is forecast to be excellent for Dragon's homecoming on Tuesday afternoon.
11:50NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
12:04From the time of undocking through splashdown, it's a fairly short phasing as they term the ballistics end of the operation,
12:12about 17 hours of transit between the time the Dragon will undock from the International Space Station and the time it will splashdown.
12:22Again, splashdown off the coast of Florida in the Gulf is scheduled for 4.57 p.m. Central time, 5.57 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday afternoon.
12:42We should be seeing Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore shortly.
12:59At the time of splashdown, predicted to be Tuesday afternoon, Williams, again, will have logged 286 days in space on this, her third flight,
13:08and a total of 608 days in space, the second most by any American astronaut, right behind Peggy Whitson, who has 675 days in space on her bio.
13:21Butch Wilmore, with his 286 days in space at the time of splashdown tomorrow, on this, his third flight, will have logged 464 days in space.
13:31Nick Hague, wrapping up his third mission with 171 days in space, will have a total of 374 days in space, to his credit.
13:42And, again, Alexander Gorbunov of Roscosmos ending his first flight into space with a splashdown tomorrow and a total of 171 days on his biography.
14:00We are moving into a brief handover between satellites on the tracking and data relay satellite system.
14:14There you see a view of us here in mission control in Houston at the Johnson Space Center in the International Space Station flight control room.
14:20Once again, the flight director in charge of tonight's operation is Marcos Flores, the lead flight director for Crew-9, joined on console by spacecraft communicator Tess Caswell,
14:31whose voice you will hear talking to the crew periodically during the timeframe between now and hatch closure and then between hatch closure and undocking,
14:42through the time that the Freedom spacecraft leaves what is called the approach ellipsoid, basically, I term it the neighborhood of the International Space Station,
14:52at which point integrated operations between the Johnson Space Center and Hawthorne will come to an end and it will all be in Hawthorne's hands to bring the crew home.
15:03SpaceX copies live on field at 0258 Zulu. Continue with IMV duct teardown and hatch closure.
15:26And Freedom, Houston, on the big loop. Sounded like a good comm check with SpaceX. At your convenience, we'll take a comm check with us.
15:41And Houston, Freedom's got you loud and clear.
15:44Copy.
15:50With those voice checks between Nick Haig and the SpaceX mission control room in Hawthorne and the flight control room here in Houston,
15:59you're seeing Don Pettit and Alexey Ovchinin taking photographs of Butch Wilmore in his entry suit.
16:08Sonny Williams is in the foreground near the hatchway.
16:20Once again, there are two SpaceX Dragons at the International Space Station.
16:26The one that the Crew 9 crew will be departing in a couple of hours from now is on the Zenith or space-facing port of the Harmony module.
16:36The newly arrived Crew 10 crew docked early Sunday morning to the forward port of Harmony in their Dragon Endurance.
16:49And you see at the hatchway, the first crew member,
16:54the first crew member of the crew,
16:57the first crew member of the crew,
17:00the first crew member of the crew,
17:03the first crew member of the crew,
17:05the first crew member of the crew,
17:07the first crew member of the crew,
17:09the first crew member of the crew,
17:11the first crew member of the crew,
17:13the first crew member of the crew,
17:15the first crew member of the crew,
17:17and you see at the hatchway the four departing Crew 9 crew members posing for some final photos.
17:47NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
18:17NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
18:41Final handshakes and hugs between the departing Crew 9 crew members
18:49and the crew members who will remain on board the International Space Station,
18:53maintaining a continuous human presence on the orbital laboratory that began on November 2, 2000.
19:10Once again, we're in a brief handover between satellites that provide the downlink TV capability from the station.
19:29We'll be regaining that downlink TV just a moment or two from now.
19:36You saw the Crew 9, two of the Crew 9 crew members,
19:39Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore, already in their entry suits.
19:43Nick Hague and Alexander Gorbunov will don their suits once inside Dragon.
19:48Hague and Gorbunov flew up to the International Space Station back on September 28,
19:54so they're wrapping up a mission almost six months in duration.
19:59Williams and Wilmore, of course, so with their extended mission,
20:02in the homestretch of a nine-and-a-half-month flight spanning 121.3 million statute miles.
20:32NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
21:03And now inside Dragon, you see Butch Wilmore on the far left in the center of your screen,
21:07Alexander Gorbunov, Nick Hague on the far right.
21:14They will settle into their respective seats aboard Freedom
21:20as countdown clocks here in Mission Control are ticking backward toward the time of the command
21:25to initiate the opening of hooks holding Freedom to its docking port
21:29on the space-facing side of the Harmony module.
21:32That command to be issued about an hour and 55 minutes from now.
21:37The actual physical separation, what we peg as undocking for the history books,
21:43is scheduled at 12.05 a.m. Central, 1.05 a.m. Eastern.
21:50SpaceX copies on hatch closure.
21:52We'll send a command momentarily to transition the state machine to hatch close.
21:56Reference your hatch close event details for a few actions
21:59and then complete suit donning per procedure 4.010.
22:08Freedom copies all.
22:11And Nick Hague aboard Freedom confirming that Dragon's hatch to the International Space Station is closed.
22:17That call coming at 10.05 p.m. Central time, 11.05 p.m. Eastern time.
22:23So the Crew 9 crew now safely aboard the Dragon Freedom will complete their suit up procedures,
22:31do systems checks.
22:32There will be a series of leak checks between Freedom
22:36and the International Space Station at the docking interface.
22:42You see Suni Williams on the far right-hand side of your screen.
22:47She will be seated next to Nick Hague, the Freedom commander.
22:51To Hague's right will be Alexander Gorbunov, and you see Butch Wilmore on the far left.
23:16The undocking between Freedom and the International Space Station will take Freedom above
23:22and behind the orbital laboratory through a series of what are known as departure burns.
23:30Freedom then will swing below the space station on a trajectory for the deorbit burn,
23:36a seven-minute, 29-second braking maneuver that is scheduled at 4.11 p.m. Central time on Tuesday afternoon,
23:435.11 p.m. Eastern time.
23:45That will slow Dragon down by more than 50 meters per second,
23:49allowing it to drop out of orbit for its high-speed entry back into the Earth's atmosphere
23:54and a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida.
24:15Once again, the four Dragon Freedom crew members you see in this view.
24:35Butch Wilmore on the far left, Alexander Gorbunov with his back to the camera,
24:41Nick Hague just out of the field of view, and Suni Williams on the far right of your screen.
24:46The hatch was closed at 10.05 p.m. Central time, 11.05 p.m. Eastern time.
24:52The station hatch will be closed just a short time from now,
24:56enabling a series of leak checks to occur to make sure we have an airtight seal
25:01before the pressurization of pressurized mating adapter number two can begin.
25:07The vestibule will be depressed to vacuum, setting the stage for the initiation of the commanding
25:13of the opening of the hooks holding Dragon in place and the physical separation of Dragon from Harmony
25:19with undocking scheduled at 12.05 a.m. Central time, 1.05 a.m. Eastern time.
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26:07If you're just joining us, you're looking live inside the SpaceX Dragon Freedom.
26:18The Crew 9 crew all on board on the far left, Butch Wilmore on the far right,
26:23Suni Williams, who launched back on June 5 aboard a Boeing Starliner spacecraft,
26:28returning on Tuesday aboard the Dragon Freedom to complete what will be 286 days in space,
26:37285 of which will have been spent on the International Space Station.
26:42Just to put their long-duration mission into context,
26:46it is not the longest mission in the history of U.S. spaceflight, the longest single mission.
26:52That distinction belongs to NASA's Frank Rubio, who had his mission extended due to a coolant leak
26:59on the Soyuz spacecraft that he was launched on from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
27:05A replacement Soyuz was launched by Roscosmos.
27:09Rubio came home subsequent to that with a total of 371 days in space.
27:16Behind him, Mark Vande Hei, NASA astronaut logged 355 days in space,
27:22Scott Kelly 340, Christina Koch 328, and Peggy Wittson 289.
27:46NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
28:16NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
28:46On the far left of your screen, a good view of Dragon with its open nose cap.
29:00That nose cone will be closed following Tuesday's deorbit burn as part of the pre-entry procedures.
29:08Once again, moving into a quick handover here between satellites
29:11on our Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
29:14The Dragon crew all on board.
29:16The hatch is closed between Dragon and the International Space Station.
29:19The station hatch will be closed a short time from now.
29:23And leak checks at the docking interface between the two spacecraft will begin
29:28to make sure we have an airtight seal before the small passageway or vestibule,
29:33known as Pressurized Mating Adapter Number 2, will be ready for depressurization down to vacuum.
29:41We'll see the subsequent undocking of Dragon from Harmony's space-facing port
29:46about an hour and 47 minutes from now.
30:11NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
30:41Looking once again inside Dragon, Butch Wilmore on the left.
30:58Settling into his seat is the commander of Dragon, veteran NASA astronaut Nick Haig.
31:04On the far right of your screen, Sonny Williams.
31:09Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov is completing a few adjustments to items with his seat.
31:18He will don his entry suit just a few moments from now.
31:23And all four crew members will be positioned, ready for undocking
31:28and the beginning of a 17-hour trip back to Earth and a conclusion to this mission.
31:38NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
32:09As mentioned earlier, this is not the first time that Wilmore and Williams have been aboard the Dragon Freedom.
32:15SpaceX Freedom, com check from C2.
32:21C2 SpaceX, we have you loud and clear, how may?
32:29I'm seated and seated, working on Alex, and we'll be finishing up and ready for C2 checks very shortly.
32:41SpaceX copies all.
32:46That communication between the spacecraft communicator at SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne, California,
32:54and Dragon's commander Nick Haig.
32:57The communications checks continuing.
33:00Alexander Gorbunov yet to suit up. He will momentarily.
33:24As mentioned earlier, Williams and Wilmore are not strangers to the Dragon Freedom.
33:42They have practiced suit-up procedures over the course of the past few months
33:48and took a ride aboard Freedom for a few minutes.
33:52Back on November 3rd when the spacecraft undocked from the forward port of the Harmony module
33:58and relocated to the zenith or space-facing port of the Harmony module.
34:03Slightly longer trip for Williams and Wilmore today, a 17-hour journey that will take them to a splashdown
34:10off the coast of Florida on Tuesday afternoon at 4.57 p.m. Central time, 5.57 p.m. Eastern time.
34:22NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
34:52NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
35:22NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
35:35Just to recap, the four crew members who are coming home tomorrow aboard the SpaceX Dragon Freedom
35:44are all inside Freedom, three of the crew members suited up and strapped into their seats.
35:50Captain Alexander Gorbunov is completing some preparations before he dons his entry suit.
35:56The hatch between Freedom and the International Space Station was closed at 10.05 p.m. Central time,
36:0411.05 p.m. Eastern time.
36:07We are awaiting the closing of the hatch between the International Space Station on that side of the docking interface
36:16to begin and ensure that we have an airtight seal before the vestibule or passageway is depressurized prior to undocking.
36:24The Dragon crew members will also undergo leak checks to their suits and further communications checks prior to the undocking itself,
36:32which is scheduled about an hour and 41 minutes from now at 12.05 a.m. Central time, 1.05 a.m. Eastern.
36:45NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
37:15NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
37:46So as we stand by for confirmation that the station hatch is closed on that side of the docking interface,
37:52that activity to be supervised by Anne McClain, the NASA astronaut and commander of the Dragon Endurance,
37:59that just arrived at the International Space Station, kicking off a handover period of just over a day between the two crews,
38:08an abbreviated handover compared to others that have preceded it,
38:13that designed to provide this opportunity for undocking,
38:19thus maximizing the best weather conditions that were forecast for this coming week over the next few days.
38:27This is our best shot with pristine weather off the coast of Florida to bring the Crew-9 crew home.
38:44NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
38:50NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
38:56NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
39:02NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
39:08Station on two for IDEA egress.
39:13NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
39:18Go ahead on two.
39:22We are on in step 5.2, and we found some pieces of dust around the hatch seal area,
39:31so we are going to clean them with cotton tape.
39:38Copy and concur with the plan.
39:43How are we doing on the timeline?
39:49Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi newly arrived on the station as part of Crew-10,
39:57noticing a few flecks of dust along the hatch seals, so he will clean those off.
40:04We want to make sure that there's no foreign object debris at that hatch seal
40:08that could compromise the integrity of an airtight seal between pressurized mating adapter number two
40:15and the interface with the Dragon Freedom.
40:31You're looking right across Nick Haig, the commander of the Dragon Freedom,
40:38the mission director at SpaceX's mission control room in Hawthorne,
40:42reporting back to NASA flight director Marcos Flores here in mission control in Houston
40:48that we're just about ready for suit leak checks.
40:57You are go for step 5.3.
41:21Copy, we are go for closing Apex hatch, and I have one question for you.
41:28Go ahead.
41:34Another view of the crew aboard Dragon Freedom looking…
41:39There is one SpaceX bag, it's labeled as unarmed PFD.
41:46The bag number is 153, and it's carabiner attached to one of the bungees in PMS3.
41:55Can we just leave it as it is?
42:00Checking.
42:11Once again, you're looking at a view across the four crew members,
42:16Butch Wilmore in the foreground, Alexander Gorbunov to his left,
42:20then Nick Haig and just obscured on the far right-hand side of this configuration is Sonny Williams.
42:34SpaceX Freedom on the big loop.
42:36Section 5 complete. Get everybody suited with successful intercom checks.
42:44SpaceX copies on successful intercom checks. Continue to section 6.
42:52Freedom, welcome.
43:06And in preparation of the leak checks of the four suits by the Crew 9 crew members,
43:19Butch Wilmore and the others putting their hands in their gloves.
43:24Those will be securely zipped in place before the leak checks will begin.
43:38Station Houston on the big loop for the bag.
43:48Go ahead on two.
43:51I would like you to remove that bag from PMS3 temp stow in node 2,
43:55and we will find a permanent home for it after the undock.
44:02We'll temp stow it in node 2.
44:33SpaceX Freedom on the big loop. Section 6 is complete.
44:54SpaceX copies completion of 4.010.
45:04The hatch between the International Space Station and pressurized mating adapter number 2 is now closed.
45:10The Dragon hatch was closed at 10.05 p.m. Central time, 11.05 p.m. Eastern time.
45:17Just about two minutes ago at 10.26 Central, 11.26 p.m. Eastern, the station hatch also closed.
45:26And that sets the stage for the vestibule depressurization and final leak checks at the docking interface.
45:47Another perspective of Nick Hague and Alexander Gorbunov.
46:13Butch Wilmore is to Gorbunov's right.
46:16Essentially, you're looking over the shoulder of Sonny Williams, who's in the far left seat, if you will,
46:22in the seating configuration on the Dragon Freedom.
46:35Freedom, SpaceX on the big loop.
46:37We have a go for procedure 4.011. We'll meet you in section 2 when ready.
46:47Freedom copies go for 4.011. Sealing check. And we'll press through section 1.
46:53We'll check in with you in section 2.
47:05The crew closing their visors in advance of the individual leak checks on their suits.
47:35Station Houston on the big loop for Ann prior to hatch close.
48:04And taking a look at stowage and PMA-3 currently, we are seeing the APAS hatch cover,
48:23and we need that to go into the 0.5 CTB for DMACC.
48:33We will put the hatch cover into the 0.5 CTB.
48:38A conversation between CAPCOM Tess Caswell here in mission control and Ann McClain in your field of view,
48:44the Dragon Endurance commander.
48:47We're ready to pressurize.
48:51As she checks the integrity of the hatch interface on the station side, the station hatch is closed.
49:00That's the androgynous docking adapter hatch.
49:05One more hatch has to be closed.
49:07That's the one between Harmony and the vestibule to International Docking Adapter 2.
49:14Meanwhile, leak checks now are beginning on the four suits of the Dragon Crew 9 passengers aboard the Dragon Freedom.
49:43The suit leak checks are underway.
50:13And here's the station on two, checking for step 7.4.
50:35You are go to deploy desiccant in 7.4.
52:05That's Freedom.
52:18We've got four good suits.
52:24Freedom, we see the same, four healthy suits.
52:27And that call by Dragon Commander Nick Hague confirming that all four suits of the departing Freedom crew members
52:36have checked out good leak checks on the suits, good integrity on those suits.
52:41So we now have set the stage for the undocking of the Dragon Freedom and the Crew 9 crew members just about one hour and 24 minutes from now.
52:51Just to recap, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore accompanying Commander Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov
52:59for the ride downhill and a splashdown off the coast of Florida on Tuesday afternoon.
53:05We will be resuming our coverage, joined not just here at the Johnson Space Center,
53:11but by our colleagues in Hawthorne, California at the SpaceX Control Center.
53:17We'll be back on the air just over an hour from now at 11.45 p.m. Central Time, 12.45 a.m. Eastern Time
53:25for the undocking of the Dragon Freedom and the Crew 9 crew from the International Space Station.
53:30The weather conditions off the coast of Florida and the splashdown sites continues to be good
53:35with splashdown of Williams, Wilmore, Gorbunov and Hague scheduled for Tuesday afternoon
53:42at 4.57 p.m. Central Time, 5.57 p.m. Eastern Time.
53:48So with the Crew 9 crew strapped into their seats and good leak checks for their suits on the Dragon Freedom,
53:56we'll sign off for now and we'll be back with you just over an hour from now for our undocking coverage.
54:02For now, we'll sign off. This is Mission Control Houston.
54:12NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology