Four astronauts from the United States, Japan, and Russia departed the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule on Friday, heading for a Saturday splashdown off California’s coast after completing a 146-day mission packed with over 200 scientific experiments.
American astronauts Nicole Ayers and Anna McClain, Japan’s Takuya Onishi, and Russia’s Kirill Peskov are carrying sensitive research samples gathered in microgravity — vital to advancing medicine, technology, and Earth sciences.
After a 17.5-hour journey through Earth’s atmosphere, the spacecraft is scheduled to land in the Pacific Ocean at 11:33 a.m. US time, marking a smooth close to NASA’s latest crew rotation mission.
As Crew-10 heads home, former ISS commander Butch Wilmore announced his retirement after a distinguished 25-year NASA career, having flown on four different spacecraft and contributing to the development of Boeing’s Starliner program.
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