Crew Dragon C210 Endurance and the Crew-10 astronauts are preparing to return to Earth following over 140 days in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The mission, commanded by NASA astronaut Anne McClain, is now scheduled to undock from the Station on Friday, Aug. 8, at 22:05 UTC before splashing down 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 are watching the weather and will review it before giving the go-ahead for the spacecraft to depart the Station.
Crew-10, composed of astronauts from NASA, Japan, and Russia, will hand over its duties to the recently launched Crew-11 astronauts. Crew-11’s Zena Cardman, Michael Fincke, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg Platonov are taking over in place of McClain, Nichole Ayers, Japan’s Takuya Onishi, and Russia’s Kirill Peskov.