Space station crew returns home after eight-month mission

The four people departing the International Space Station strapped into their Crew Dragon capsule and undocked early Wednesday, setting up re-entry and splashdown Thursday off the coast of Southern California to close out a 237-day stay in orbit.
With Crew 12 commander Jessica Meir and pilot Jack Hathaway at the controls, flanked on their left by European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and on the right by cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, the Crew Dragon "Freedom" backed away from the space-facing port on the forward Harmony module at 8:05 a.m. Eastern Time.
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