The Boeing Starliner astronauts returned to Earth today
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The Crew-9 return mission has completed its deorbit burn.
The Dragon spacecraft is fewer than 20 minutes out from splashdown in Florida. As noted on NASA’s livestream, it has completed the deorbit burn that lasted about seven and a half minutes at 5:18PM ET, and is entering a period of communications blackout as they reenter Earth’s atmosphere.
Its drogue parachutes will deploy four minutes before splashdown, beginning the process of slowing it down from 350 miles per hour before its targeted landing at about 5:57PM ET.
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