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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Astronauts Splash Down After Extended Stay In Space

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Astronauts splash down off the coast of Florida, finally coming home after their week long mission in space became nearly a ten month stay on the International Space Station. Plus, Putin agrees to pause attacks on some Ukraine targets.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:50.5

This is CNN Breaking News.

0:54.0

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. Our breaking news after being delayed in space for more than nine months.

1:00.0

Two NASA astronauts are finally less than one hour away from returning to Earth.

1:06.0

Right now, Sonny Williams and Butch Wilmore are on their last orbit around the Earth until they reenter our atmosphere,

1:12.6

the most dangerous part of any flight home from space.

1:16.6

Just moments ago, NASA started putting out video of this mission, which is giving us off and on glimpses inside the capsule.

1:23.6

A reminder of why this homecoming is long overdue.

1:26.6

Butch and Sunny arrived at the International Space Station on June 6 last year for a mission

1:32.4

that was expected to last about a week.

1:34.5

The main goal was to show that their spacecraft, Boeing Starliner, was ready to carry astronauts

1:40.1

to and from the ISS.

1:42.3

But Starliner had big issues that led to multiple delays in the return,

1:46.0

and for safety reasons, eventually had to fly back to Earth without astronauts,

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