Overview
- Mission managers are targeting undocking no earlier than 8:05 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 7, with a planned splashdown off California around 11:34 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 8.
- The returning crew are NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev after a mission that lasted nearly eight months.
- NASA and ESA will stream live coverage of hatch closing, undocking, deorbit burn and splashdown and have published exact coverage start times for viewers online.
- Officials emphasized that the schedule is conditional on spacecraft readiness, recovery-ship and aircraft availability, and sea and weather conditions in the Pacific, any of which could delay the return.
- Crew-13 is already aboard the station and a formal handover took place on Oct. 4, so the rotation will keep station operations and science going after Crew-12 returns.