Overview
- The capsule splashed down off San Diego at 12:41 a.m. PT on Jan. 15 after a departure moved up by about a month.
- NASA said the early return enables Earth-based diagnostics for one stable crew member, with identity and medical details withheld for privacy.
- Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke, Kimiya Yui and Oleg Platonov were recovered at sea and taken to a San Diego-area hospital for overnight evaluation before returning to Houston.
- The ISS is now staffed by NASA’s Christopher Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud‑Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev, narrowing operations to essential work and deferring routine spacewalks.
- Reentry was visible across parts of Northern California as the Dragon deployed parachutes and was retrieved by a SpaceX recovery ship.