CREW-12 SPLASHDOWN, Oct 8, 2026, California coast, 11:34 am ET

Update, October 8:  The splashdown time has been refined to 11:34 am ET.

Update, October 5: NASA has refined the splashdown time by one minute to 11:24 am ET on October 8.  NASA coverage begins at 10:20 am ET. [Note that the time for undocking on October 7 has changed from 1:05 am ET to 8:05 am ET.].

A post-splashdown briefing that will also discuss the upcoming launch of the SpaceX-35 cargo mission to the ISS is at 1:15 pm ET. See our separate entry.

Original Entry: NASA is targeting Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 1:05 am ET for the undocking of Crew-12 from the International Space Station, and splashdown off the coast of California the next day at 11:25 am ET, weather permitting.

Crew members are:

• Jessica Meir, NASA (commander)
• Jack Hathway, NASA (pilot)
• Sophie Adenot, ESA (mission specialist)
• Andrey Fedyaev, Roscosmos (mission specialist)

A change of command ceremony will take place at 10:20 am ET on October 4 where current ISS commander Jessica Meir hands command to Roscosmos’s Pyotr Dubrov.

Crew-12 launched on February 13, 2026 and docked the next day at 3:15 pm ET.