Overview
- Mission managers are targeting undocking from the ISS at no earlier than 8:05 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 7, followed by a Pacific Ocean splashdown off California at about 11:34 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 8.
- The four returning fliers are commander Jessica Meir, pilot Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, who have spent nearly eight months on Expedition 75.
- NASA, ESA and SpaceX will stream hatch‑closure, undocking, deorbit and splashdown coverage on their public channels and plan a post‑splashdown briefing for media.
- Final go/no‑go decisions hinge on Dragon and recovery‑team readiness plus sea and weather conditions in the California recovery zone, any of which could change the timeline.
- Crew‑12 completed hundreds of experiments during the mission and set milestones including Sophie Adenot’s European single‑flight record of 200 consecutive days, and ESA has arranged post‑flight medical follow‑up and science handover on her return to Cologne.