Overview
- NASA and SpaceX are targeting undocking no earlier than 8:05 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 7, with a planned splashdown off the coast of California at about 11:34 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 8.
- The four-person Crew‑12 team consists of commander Jessica Meir, pilot Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev who will spend roughly 27.5 hours inside Crew Dragon Freedom between undocking and re‑entry.
- Mission managers are actively monitoring spacecraft checks, recovery‑team readiness and Pacific sea and weather conditions before committing to the timeline and the final go for undocking.
- ESA and NASA will stream live coverage of hatch closing, undocking, the deorbit burn and splashdown across their web channels so the public can follow the sequence of departure burns, trunk jettison and atmospheric re‑entry.
- Crew‑12’s return wraps up an eight‑month stint during which the crew ran hundreds of experiments, performed multiple spacewalks and saw Sophie Adenot set a new European single‑flight record while becoming the first French woman to walk in space; Crew‑13 completed the formal handover on Oct. 4 and remains aboard the station.