Crew-12 Ready to Depart as New Residents Begin Advanced Health Research

Four Expedition 75 crew members are in their final full day aboard the International Space Station as they prepare to undock aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and return to Earth. Their departure will leave seven residents aboard the orbital outpost to continue advanced space research and lab maintenance. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway will respectively command and pilot Dragon when it undocks from the Harmony module’s space-facing port at 8:05 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. Mission specialists Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos will ride back to Earth with the NASA duo for a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at 11:34 a.m. on Thursday where NASA and SpaceX support personnel will retrieve Dragon and greet the crew. Their return to Earth will represent the completion of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission after 237 days in space. More

(Source: NASA - Oct 8)