Crew Dragon spacecraft with Roscosmos astronaut will leave the ISS on October 7
SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is due to leave the International Space Station (ISS) on October 7, NASA said.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is due to leave the International Space Station (ISS) on October 7, NASA said.
The Crew-12 mission includes Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adeno.
The undocking of the ship is scheduled not earlier than 08:05 Eastern time of the United States (15:05 GMT). After that, Crew Dragon will return to Earth, a splashdown is expected on October 8 off the coast of California.
The Crew-12 crew spent 237 days (almost eight months) in orbit.
In early October, a replacement crew of the Crew-13 mission arrived at the ISS. The ship docked to the station on October 1 at 19:05 Eastern time (October 2 at 02:05 GMT). The flight from start to docking took 7 hours 55 minutes.
The Crew-13 included Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutrick.
