Science & Space
Crew-12 Ends Station Mission, Returning Four Astronauts Home
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is ending, with four crew members scheduled to return from the station in early October.
What happened
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is concluding after supporting research aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev are scheduled to return home in early October. The excerpt says their work supported research benefiting life on Earth and preparing humans for future missions.
Why it matters
The mission’s return marks the end of a research period aboard the station, but the available source does not identify specific experiments or business consequences.
Source: NASA