NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams departed the International Space Station early on Tuesday morning in a SpaceX capsule for a long-awaited trip back to Earth, nine months after their faulty Boeing BA.N Starliner craft upended what was to be a roughly week-long test mission.
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00:00All hooks open. All hooks are open and undocking confirmed. Freedom is free of its moorings.
00:09Sunny Williams and Butch Wilmore begin their belated trip home.
00:14Good motion, good stability on Dragon as it backs away.
00:18Freedom, SpaceX on the big loop, depart burn zero nominal.
00:22I wish we could spend more time with you guys, but many people who love you and whom you love are waiting for you, so safe travel. Godspeed.
00:36A view of Dragon from the International Space Station now quite a bit smaller than when we just saw it.