NASA, SpaceX Accelerate Plans for Crew-9 Dragon Splashdown

Crew-9 astronauts
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 members, clockwise from left, are NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Suni Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA and SpaceX have moved up plans for the departure of NASA's Crew-9 Dragon from the International Space Station with its crew of four, including Boeing CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams, to early March 18. Undocking would be...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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