NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon Freedom splashes down in the Pacific after 237 days in space
8 October 2026
NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 splashed down on Thursday, 8 October 2026, at 8:34 a.m. PDT in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles.
The crew flew SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom: NASA's Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA's Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos's Andrey Fedyaev.
The mission launched on 13 February 2026 from Florida and docked with the International Space Station a day later.
It lasted 237 days, covered more than 100 million miles and made more than 3,792 orbits of Earth.
Meir completed four spacewalks, taking her career total to seven; Adenot completed three and became the first French woman to spacewalk.
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ESA European Space Agency — The space agency of Europe, whose astronaut Sophie Adenot flew on Crew-12.
Roscosmos Russian state space corporation — Russia's space agency, whose cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev flew on a US spacecraft.