On the evening of March 18, the Freedom capsule carrying Crew-9 entered the atmosphere of Earth and descended to the Gulf of America, splashing down off the coast of Florida.
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00:00This view coming from the WB-57 high altitude plane, and there you see it on your screen,
00:05drogue deployment. You can hear the crowd here.
00:16Here at 2 57 p.m pacific time this afternoon, and there we go. We have visual on four healthy mains.
00:23That view was from inside,
00:31that view was from inside one of the buckets where the parachutes are located. So we see a
00:36great view there of the reefing on those parachutes, and as those parachutes, those
00:42main parachutes begin to inflate fully, we can see the crew there using their restraints
00:49as resting places for their arms. They were just in space moments ago,
00:55so their arms were able to float freely.
01:00400 meters, and we're going to stand by for splashdown,
01:05located in the Gulf of America off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida.
01:10And splashdown, crew nine back on earth.
01:31And SpaceX Freedom, splashdown. Good main release. Copy splashdown, we see main chutes cut.
01:40Nick, Alex, Butch, Sonny, on behalf of SpaceX, welcome home.
02:02And as you can see on your screen, we have visual confirmation of splashdown. Dragon
02:08Freedom has returned home and NASA astronauts. System safety verifications are in progress.
02:13We'll report back when recovery personnel are en route.