SpaceX Crew-12

This isn't military or combat related, but it sure could be someday, and it's a good thing that we're developing our skills in going into space.

NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 made a planned Pacific splashdown after an overnight return from the International Space Station, closing nearly eight months in orbit.

Crew 12 sealed the hatch at 6.05 a.m. Eastern on October 7th and started to return ops.

SpaceX Dragon then undocked from the International Space Station at 8.05, carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Meyer and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronauts Sophie Adnott and Rosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyev.

NASA planned a roughly 27-hour trip back to Earth with a parachute-assisted splashdown of the Pacific Ocean near California, targeted for late morning on October 8, Eastern Time.

NASA says Crew Dragon is designed to land in water with recovery teams staged near the primary and backup sites.

The agency and SpaceX select zones and exact timing based on winds, waves, visibility, ship and air assets.

For Crew 12, NASA targeted the Pacific off California, consistent with past mission options.

and it doesn't end there in what's been a really busy week for SpaceX.

Just a week after Crew-13's arrival on station, NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 undocked from the orbiting outpost's Zenith port of the Harmony module for their return journey to Earth following their eight-month mission on station, splashing down in the North Pacific Ocean off the California coast west of Los Angeles.

It was an eventful mission for Crew-12.

It began earlier than expected, following the early return to Earth of the Crew 11 mission due to a medical evacuation of one of their crew members.

And it was also a late crew replacement for Crew 12, with the original Russian cosmonaut intended to fly on the mission expelled from the United States following spying allegations.

Apparently he was caught violating international trafficking in arms regulations by photographing SpaceX engines, classified documents and other technologies using his phone at a SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California.

The idea looks like old Cold War habits die hard.

During their 237 days on station, Crew-12 completed 3,792 orbits of the planet, undertaking four spacewalks and carrying out research testing stem cell production for new therapies, demonstrating on-demand IV fluid generation for future missions, and studying how the bacteria which causes pneumonia can lead to long-term heart damage.

The winner will be recognized with a plaque at the 2027 Dayton Hamvention.

In the more than seven months they were on board the International Space Station, the members of NASA's SpaceX Crew 12 conducted scientific research, logged spacewalks, and had a number of amateur radio contacts with students through ARIS.

On Thursday, October 8th, they returned home, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

NASA's Jessica Mayer and Jack Hathaway, KJ-5 NIV, along with the European Space Agency's Sophie Adnott, KJ-5 LTN, and Roscosmos' Andrei Fitev, has spent 237 days in space.

Thank you, FAA.

So the other day we reported on Crew-12 returning to Earth aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon on Thursday, and Crew-12 astronaut Jessica Meir just posted, "Ain't nothing gonna break my stride except for maybe gravity.

Here's a peek into our first space station post-flight data collection session immediately after landing in the helicopter after our SpaceX Dragon splashdown last Thursday.

The heel-toe walk with eyes open was doable, but definitely off my balance game once they had me repeat with eyes closed, shown here.

Dragon Freedom has returned home, and Jessica, Jack, Sophie, and Andre- Copy the splashdown.

On behalf of SpaceX, welcome home Crew-12

And so of course, this was for Crew-12 coming back from the International Space Station.

Splashdown was about 50 miles off the coast of Los Angeles on Thursday.

Funny how the trip up takes about eight hours, but the trip home takes 27 and a half hours.

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All four Crew-12 mission astronauts, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andre Fedorov are now home safe and sound.

Elon said, "Welcome home." Yeah, I was surprised the other day, we were putting together some new astronaut posters-

No, imagine like then you came back home and when you're home, And I'm talking about planet Earth, that is.

That's exactly what happened to a group of very, very brave astronauts from Crew 12 who splashed back down to Earth on October 8th.

Ten months in space and we're going to find out what the journey was like and what it feels like to finally come back.

then we go deep like really really deep into the universe so deep it's hard to even imagine scientists have just spotted something absolutely massive a giant black hole so far away it goes back to almost the very beginning of time and it's called a blazar and it's like a giant cosmic lighthouse beaming light across billions of years straight to us incredible stuff after that have you ever wondered why planet earth and mars are so different well they're neighbors yes but they're right next to each other in our solar system.

Do not be shy.

Now, before I say goodbye, let's do a super quick look back at everything we've covered today, because what a lineup it was.

First of all, we started with crew 12 astronauts, four incredible human beings who spent 10 months on the International Space Station, and they came back home safely to Earth on October 8th.

Welcome back.

Were there there for increments at a time? What is that going to be like? So these are just some of the studies that this crew is going to be looking at.

Now, that also means that Crew 12 will be coming down.

And just as we were going to air tonight, Um, NASA made the announcement that, uh, that crew 12, which is, uh, comprises of, uh, Jess Camere, Jack Hathaway, uh, European space agency, astronaut, Sophie, I don't know.

And Roscosmos astronaut, Andre fed yet.

Uh, they are getting ready to, to leave the ISS.