Four Astronauts Land After 237 Days and 100 Million Miles
NASA's Crew-12 mission came down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles on Oct. 8, 2026. Aboard were NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman put numbers on the flight: 237 days living and working in orbit, and more than 100 million miles traveled before the crew returned safely home. A seven-month rotation is close to routine for the station program. The roster is the part worth pausing on — two Americans, a European and a Russian, sharing one ride down.
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Handing a landing to a capsule carrying NASA, ESA and Roscosmos crew is the least dramatic possible statement of cooperation, which may be why it keeps working.
Cooperation endures where the hardware is shared and already paid for. It says less about politics than about the cost of building a second station nobody wants to fund.