Watch SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts head home to Earth today

11 people stand in a cramped space station module during a farewell ceremony

NASA astronaut and Crew-10 commander Anne McClain (bottom right) speaks during a farewell ceremony aboard the International Space Station on Aug. 5, 2025. (Image credit: NASA TV)

SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts will head home to Earth today (Aug. 7), and you can watch the action live.

The Crew-10 quartet's Crew Dragon capsule, named Endurance, is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) today at 12:05 p.m. EDT (1605 GMT) and splash down 24 hours later.

You can watch it all live via NASA. Space.com will carry the feed as well, if the agency makes it available.

NASA's stream will start at 9:45 a.m. EDT (1345 GMT) to cover the closing of the hatches between Endurance and the ISS, which is expected to occur at 10:20 a.m. EDT (1420 GMT).

Coverage will resume at 11:45 a.m. EDT (1545 GMT), 20 minutes before undocking. There will then be a lengthy break, with the webcast picking up again on Friday (Aug. 8) at 10:45 a.m. EDT (1445 GMT) for reentry and splashdown activities.

Splashdown is expected on Friday at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 GMT), in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. NASA will also hold a post-landing press conference on Friday at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT), if all goes to plan.

None of this is set in stone, however; the departure date could be pushed back if bad weather crops up in the splashdown zone.

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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.

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Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, "Out There," was published on Nov. 13, 2018. Before becoming a science writer, Michael worked as a herpetologist and wildlife biologist. He has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from the University of Sydney, Australia, a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona, and a graduate certificate in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. To find out what his latest project is, you can follow Michael on Twitter.

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