Watch Live: Space Station Crew Returns To Earth Tonight

Wow, cool. I think I will watch it.

WATCH LIVE @ 6:45 pm ET: Space Station Crew Returns to Earth Tonight

You can watch the space crew's landing on Space.com in a live webcast provided by NASA. The webcast will include a series of broadcasts for each stage of the landing. The landing webcast begins at 3:15 p.m. EDT (1915 GMT) with a farewell ceremony, then resumes at 6:45 p.m. EDT (2245 GMT) for live views of undocking. The landing coverage will begin at 9:15 p.m. EDT (0115 GMT).

Live comments section (and chat) on the USTREAM site

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload

 

I've been watching for over an hour now. The live feed keeps cutting out (bummer) but it's so cool to see Earth come into view.

NASA site is showing other content when the USTREAM live feed is unavailable: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.VBDsamPwr-8

 

Pic of the current live view

 

No more black space now, only Earth surface is showing.

 

SO blue..

 

Good lord. That is stunning. Hello, beautiful world! It's good to be back!

 

Space magic.

 

Getting closer and darker now ..

 

Live now on NASA / Public

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#.VBDyLWPwr-_

Countdown of landing: about 45 minutes from now.

 

I watched the space shuttle Challenger explode in the air, live, when I was a kid. I was 10 or 11 years old. Stayed home from school that day, sick. It was quite an experience to watch it live and a shock and a half, to watch it so unexpectedly explode. R.I.P. Christa McAuliffe & Challenger crew.

 

It shocked all of us, I think. What shocked me more is all the jokes around the word NASA that people made afterwards. Made me a little bit disappointed in the human race when that happened.

 

22 minutes ...

*module separation complete*

 

Live talk: 20 minutes prior to landing, the crew is just now feeling the first of gravity they've felt in over 5 months...

Crew sees a plasma trail as the heat dissipates ..

(just over 17 minutes now .. silence from the live feed .. )

View from the landing site attached.

 

"We are feeling well .. one second .. thank you .. "

Crew reporting, great shape,

Opening up the shoots (chutes?) lol

See the Russian wording at top of screen images ...

"textbook return home"

 

9 1/2 minutes

 

"Under 6 minutes until touchdown" (images have not changed .. yet)

 

I love listening to the beeps. doot-doot-DOOTDOOT-doot-doot-DOOTDOOT-dootdoot

 

close!

 

Touchdown! Right on the dot, he said (9:23)

 

Post-landing images

Russian talking now, on NASA live stream.