Crew-10 set to undock from International Space Station

NATIONWIDE — After spending practically 5 months on the International Space Station, NASA’s four-member Crew-10 is about to undock on Thursday from the floating laboratory and head again all the way down to Earth in a splashdown.

The commute again dwelling will take practically 24 hours.

NASA astronauts Cmdr. Anne McClain and pilot Nichole Ayers, mission specialists Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov will climb again into SpaceX’s Dragon capsule Endurance previous midday on Thursday, stated NASA.

Endurance will undock from the station’s Harmony module at round 12:05 p.m. ET, the place it is going to be absolutely autonomous from the second it undocks to the splashdown. The splashdown is about to occur at round 11:58 a.m. ET, Friday.

However, the crew can take management of the capsule if wanted.

But the journey down will likely be much more exhilarating than an amusement park journey at Universal. Using a sequence of parachute deployments, the Dragon will decelerate from an orbital velocity of about 17,500 mph (2,816 kph) to 350 mph (482 kph) to about 16 mph (25 kph) when it ought to softly land within the ocean.

And issues will get a bit heat for the Dragon as it is going to encounter temperatures of three,500 levels Fahrenheit (1,927 levels Celsius) as soon as it hits Earth’s ambiance. The spacecraft’s particular shielding and the air-con system will hold the crew protected and funky.

It is just not recognized precisely the place Endurance’s splashdown will likely be since NASA continues to be presently determining the climate circumstances at numerous locations off of California’s coast.

Depending on the place the Dragon will likely be screaming over, some fortunate folks could hear a sonic increase.

Learn all about sonic booms right here.

Originally, the undocking and splashdown was presupposed to happen on Wednesday, however NASA cited that date was scrubbed because of “high wind predictions” on the totally different splashdown zones.

Crew-10 spent many months conducting numerous experiments after they had been launched from Launch Complex 39A on the Kennedy Space Center in March 2025.

Some of those experiments embody how cells can sense gravity, orbital results on planets and testing out a free-flying digital camera.

People can view these experiments and more here.