NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev planned to close the hatch between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the International Space Station at approximately 6:20 a.m. EDT, NASA said in an Oct. 7 report. The spacecraft was scheduled to undock autonomously at 8:05 a.m. as the crew began its roughly 27-hour journey home.

The agency targeted splashdown at about 11:34 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, off the coast of California, with coverage of the deorbit burn, entry and splashdown starting at 10:20 a.m. NASA said it would provide live undocking coverage from 7:45 a.m. Crew-12 launched at 5:15 a.m. EST on Feb. 13 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, and the Dragon docked at the station at 3:15 p.m. the following day. The mission was the second for Meir and Fedyaev and the first for Hathaway and Adenot.