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<\/a><\/figure>NASA astronauts Jessica Meir<\/a> and Jack Hathaway<\/a>, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will close the hatch at approximately 6:20 a.m. EDT between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n The spacecraft will autonomously undock from the station at 8:05 a.m. as the crew begins its roughly 27-hour journey home. NASA will provide live undocking coverage beginning at 7:45 a.m.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n NASA and SpaceX are targeting splashdown at about 11:34 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, off the coast of California. NASA will provide coverage of deorbit burn, entry, and splashdown starting at 10:20 a.m.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Crew-12 launched at 5:15 a.m. EST Feb.\u202f13 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The crew\u2019s SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the orbital outpost at 3:15 p.m. the following day. This was the second mission for Meir and Fedyaev and the first for Hathaway and Adenot.<\/p>\n Learn more about station activities by following the <\/em>space station blog<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>@space_station<\/em><\/a> on X, as well as the <\/em>ISS Facebook<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>ISS Instagram<\/em><\/a> accounts.<\/em><\/p>\n Get the latest from NASA delivered every week. <\/em>Subscribe here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark A. Garcia <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will close the hatch at approximately 6:20 a.m. EDT between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station.\u00a0 Continue reading