NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 splashed down off the coast of Los Angeles, California, at 11:34 a.m. EDT (8:34 a.m. PDT) on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, NASA reported. The Dragon spacecraft carried NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.

Recovery teams aboard the recovery ship, including two fast boats, secured the spacecraft and prepared it for the effort. The ship was then to move into position to hoist Dragon onto its main deck with the astronauts inside, after which the crew would exit the spacecraft.

The splashdown completed 237 days at the International Space Station for the four-person crew, who conducted four spacewalks during their nearly eight-month mission. Meir has now logged 440 total days in space, placing her in NASA's Top 10 for cumulative days in space. The mission was the first spaceflight for Hathaway and Adenot, and the second for Fedyaev.

NASA said it would host a post-splashdown media teleconference at 1:15 p.m. EDT covering the return and the launch of the agency's next cargo resupply mission to the microgravity laboratory.