Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore and Suni Williams expected to splash down just before 6pm ET in Florida, along with Nasa astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov
Nasa astronauts heading back to Earth
The tone of NASA’s live coverage today is really striking: it’s being narrated in a way that sounds a lot like the move-by-move commentary of a sports game, complete with detailed information on the various “stats” of the four astronauts returning home to earth.
That space-athletes commentary is mixed with a lot of highly technical information about what’s happening during every step of this return.
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