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Splashdown, Nine Months Later

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Two American astronauts return from the International Space Station, nine months behind schedule. Israel unleashes an assault on Gaza, shattering a fragile ceasefire. And President Trump discusses Russia’s counter-offer to Ukraine’s ceasefire deal.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Wednesday, March 19th, and there's nothing like a travel delay to bring you down to earth.

0:35.5

We start here.

0:44.4

After unexpectedly spending nine months in space, two American astronauts come home.

0:48.4

Butch, Sunny, on behalf of SpaceX, welcome home.

0:52.5

How they finally made it and why it took so long to go get them.

0:56.8

Israel fires into Gaza and blows up a ceasefire.

1:00.7

Incessant bombardments with the ground trembling, the building trembling.

1:06.4

Is this a negotiation tactic or the start of something even bigger? And as one ceasefire ends,

1:14.6

President Trump wants a new one to begin. Is this a first step towards trying to get to a full ceasefire? His fateful phone call with Vladimir Putin.

1:18.6

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

1:21.6

I'm Brad Milky.

1:31.3

They were supposed to be gone for about eight days. Eight days. People take longer camping trips than that. You might not even miss two

1:35.3

White Lotus episodes in eight days. The weather might be the same when you get back. But this was an eight-day trip to space.

1:42.3

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams were supposed to go up to the International Space Station on a new spacecraft called the Boeing Starliner last year, do some tests, then come back down.

1:53.0

Then there was a delay.

1:55.0

Then another, and slowly, this eight-day journey became nine months in space.

2:00.0

That finally came to an end yesterday as their

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