NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev are scheduled to close the hatch between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station at around 6:20 a.m. EDT.
The Dragon spacecraft is expected to autonomously undock from the station at 8:05 a.m., beginning the crew’s approximately 27-hour journey home. NASA will provide live coverage of the undocking from 7:45 a.m.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting splashdown at around 11:34 a.m. Thursday, October 8, off the coast of California. Coverage of the spacecraft’s deorbit burn, atmospheric entry and splashdown will begin at 10:20 a.m.
Crew-12 launched at 5:15 a.m. EST on February 13 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft reached the International Space Station and docked at 3:15 p.m. the following day.
The mission marked the second spaceflight for Meir and Fedyaev and the first spaceflight for Hathaway and Adenot.
