Overview
- Crew-10 is set to undock from the International Space Station at 12:05 p.m. EDT today, concluding nearly six months of microgravity research and technology demonstrations.
- Dragon Endurance will perform a deorbit burn before targeting an 11:58 a.m. EDT splashdown Friday off the California coast, marking the Commercial Crew Program’s first Pacific Ocean landing.
- NASA and SpaceX will stream hatch closure, undocking, deorbit burn and splashdown events live on NASA+, Amazon Prime and other platforms.
- Crew-11 astronauts Zena Cardman, Michael Fincke, Kimiya Yui and Oleg Platonov arrived earlier this week to begin handover activities and ensure seamless station operations.
- Time-sensitive experiments, including biological samples stored in the Polar cold storage facility, will return to Earth for immediate analysis.