Crew Dragon C210 Endurance and the Crew-10 astronauts have safely returned to Earth following over 140 days in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The mission, commanded by NASA astronaut Anne McClain, undocked from the Station on Friday, Aug. 8, at 22:15 UTC before its successful splashdown off the west coast of the United States the next day.
Endurance was initially scheduled to undock from ISS on Wednesday, Aug. 6, but high winds off the Southern California coast have caused multiple delays. Teams were watching the weather and reviewed it before they gave the go-ahead for the spacecraft to depart the Station.
Crew-10, composed of astronauts from NASA, Japan, and Russia, handed over its duties to the recently launched Crew-11 astronauts. Crew-11’s Zena Cardman, Michael Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov took over in place of McClain, Nichole Ayers, Japan’s Takuya Onishi, and Russia’s Kirill Peskov.