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Crew-10 Splashes Down Off California in First Pacific Landing for NASA Commercial Crew

Landing off California completes NASA’s 10th Commercial Crew rotation with a Pacific recovery procedure designed to reduce debris risk.

In this image provided by NASA, SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts, parachutes into the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025.
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From left, NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 members JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov pose for a portrait inside the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft that carried them to the International Space Station and will return them back to Earth. (NASA)
Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayersand Anne McClain and Japan's Takuya Onishi inside the SpaceX capsule

Overview

  • After a one-day delay caused by high winds at the splashdown site, the Crew-10 Dragon Endurance undocked on August 8 and safely splashed down on August 9 off the Southern California coast.
  • The landing marks the first time a NASA Commercial Crew mission has returned to Earth in the Pacific Ocean, implementing new splashdown operations to keep discarded trunk debris away from populated areas.
  • Crew-10 astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi and Kirill Peskov conclude 146 days aboard the ISS during which they completed more than 200 time-sensitive research experiments.
  • The mission enabled two NASA astronauts stranded by Boeing Starliner propulsion failures to come home and provided a seamless handover to the newly arrived Crew-11 team.
  • All four crew members have been recovered and are undergoing medical evaluations while Crew-11 continues International Space Station operations.