SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts undock from ISS, head home to Earth (video)

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endurance undocks from the International Space Station on Aug. 8, 2025, initiating the return to Earth of the Crew-10 astronaut mission.

SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts headed home to Earth on Friday (Aug. 8).

The Crew-10 quartet's Crew Dragon capsule, named Endurance, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Friday at 6:15 p.m. EDT (2215 GMT).

If all goes to plan, Endurance will splash down in the Pacific Ocean late on Saturday morning (Aug. 9).

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endurance undocks from the International Space Station on Aug. 8, 2025, initiating the return to Earth of the Crew-10 astronaut mission. (Image credit: NASA TV)

The hatches between Endurance and the ISS closed as expected on Friday at 4:20 pm. EDT (2020 GMT). Undocking followed nearly two hours later.

Splashdown is expected on Saturday at 11:33 a.m. EDT (1533 GMT), in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. You can watch the action live via NASA, and Space.com will simulcast the agency's stream, if it's made available.

NASA also plans to hold a post-landing press conference on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT), which will be webcast as well.

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Crew-10 launched on March 14 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and arrived at the ISS two days later. The mission consists of NASA's Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Takuya Onishi of JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Kirill Peskov of Russia's space agency, Roscosmos. McClain is Crew-10's commander, Ayers is the pilot and Onishi and Peskov are mission specialists.

Their replacements are the four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission, who reached the orbiting lab on Saturday morning (Aug. 2).

Crew-10 has already ticked one important box on the journey home to Earth — a farewell ceremony, which the four astronauts and the other seven people currently living on the ISS held on Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 5).

"Crew-10 has had the absolute privilege of working here for the last four months, and we have so much gratitude for all of the ground teams that showed up every day to make this possible," McClain said during the ceremony.

"We truly are very humbled to represent humanity, and we hope that we can be a reminder to others of the goodness of humanity and what we really can accomplish when we work together," she added.

Editor's note: This story was updated at 6:25 p.m. ET on Aug. 8 with news of successful undocking.