Crew-12 home after 237 days
From the Space digest for Oct 10, 2026
Sources NSF overview
What happened: Dragon Freedom undocked Oct 7, deorbited, and splashed down off the Los Angeles coast Oct 8 (NSF live).
What's genuinely new: none — routine rotation executed on schedule, and that's the point: the Dragon retirement-planning record (Starliner-2-2028, the $359M Boeing bridge) continues against a fleet that demonstrably cycles crews in and out.