CBS Evening News, 03/18/25

CBS Evening News

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3.8 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Long-delayed Starliner astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams and two space station crewmates returned to Earth on Tuesday to finally close out a repeatedly extended nine-and-a-half-month space odyssey. Eye on America: A Texas midwife and her associate are facing the state’s first criminal charges against abortion providers since Roe v. Wade was overturned, accused of violating the near-total abortion ban. 100 years ago today, the Tri-State Tornado tore through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing 695 people in the deadliest tornado in U.S. history. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And splashdown. Crew 9 back on Earth.
0:05.4	They're back. After the longest flight delay in history.
0:11.3	From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News.
0:20.0	Good evening.
0:21.6	I'm Maurice Dubois.
0:22.6	I'm John Dickerson.
0:23.6	Astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams return to Earth this evening back from what was supposed to be an eight-day mission aboard the International Space Station.
0:31.6	It lasted 35 times longer, a total of 286 days.
0:36.6	Wilmore and Williams were launched to the space station
0:40.1	aboard a Boeing Starliner capsule last June.
0:43.3	But it developed mechanical problems
0:45.2	and was brought home without them.
0:47.1	Early this morning, they boarded a SpaceX capsule,
0:49.8	along with astronaut Nick Haig and Russian cosmonaut
0:52.7	Alexander Garbenoff for the trip back to Earth.
0:56.3	And Mark Strassman reports they arrived home surfily.
1:01.1	Homecomings happen differently for astronauts.
1:04.3	We have visual on four healthy maimed.
1:06.2	You're watching the SpaceX crew dragon's main parachutes open 6,500 feet above Earth.
1:12.6	Heat shield first, its descent slowed to 15 miles an hour.
1:17.3	The capsule with its crew of four inside splashed gently into the Gulf.
1:22.7	SpaceX's message?
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