NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 splashes down off Los Angeles after 237 days in orbit

17 October 2026

The four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles at 8:34 a.m. PDT on Thursday, October 8, 2026, aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom. The crew were NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, on her second spaceflight, and Jack Hathaway, on his first; European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot of France, on her first; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia, on his second. They launched on February 13, 2026 at 5:15 a.m. EST and docked with the International Space Station a day later. The mission lasted 237 days, covering more than 100 million miles and more than 3,792 orbits of Earth. Meir completed four spacewalks on this mission, bringing her career total to seven, and Adenot completed three. NASA set a briefing for Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 3:30 p.m. EDT at the Johnson Space Center in Houston; Adenot returned to Europe and did not attend.