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Watch SpaceX Dragon splash down off California, returning Crew-12 after 235 days on the ISS

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SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California at 11:34 a.m. EDT on October 8, 2026, returning NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev from the International Space Station. After a deorbit burn at about 10:46 a.m. EDT, the capsule descended under parachutes to the ocean. The Crew-12 mission launched on February 13, 2026, and kept the crew on the station for 235 days and nearly 3,800 orbits of Earth. Video Credit: SpaceX

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