SpaceX Crew-12 splashes down off Los Angeles

NASA said SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon Freedom splashed down at 8:34 a.m. PDT on Oct. 8, 2026 in the Pacific off Los Angeles, returning Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. NASA put the ISS stay at 237 days, more than 100 million miles, and more than 3,792 orbits after a Feb. 13 launch. SpaceX recovery teams retrieved the spacecraft; NASA set a crew news conference for Oct. 15 at Johnson Space Center. NBC Los Angeles independently reported splashdown about 8:35 a.m. PT. NASA news-release pages timed out on direct fetch; facts follow NASA search retrieval plus the opened NBC report.