NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will close the hatch at approximately 6:20 a.m. EDT between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station. 

The spacecraft will autonomously undock from the station at 8:05 a.m. as the crew begins its roughly 27-hour journey home. NASA will provide live undocking coverage beginning at 7:45 a.m. 

NASA and SpaceX are targeting splashdown at about 11:34 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, off the coast of California. NASA will provide coverage of deorbit burn, entry, and splashdown starting at 10:20 a.m. 

Crew-12 launched at 5:15 a.m. EST Feb. 13 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The crew’s SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the orbital outpost at 3:15 p.m. the following day. This was the second mission for Meir and Fedyaev and the first for Hathaway and Adenot.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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