Aug. 9 (UPI) -- The four members of Crew-10 made a successful water landing off the coast of California Saturday morning, with splashdown taking place as scheduled shortly after 11:30 a.m. EDT.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov are set to touchdown at the space agency's primary targeted site off the coast of San Diego.
The crew successfully undocked from the International Space Station Friday evening, with confirmation coming at 6:30 p.m. EDT.
Crew-10 was originally scheduled to depart the orbiting laboratory on Thursday, but that was postponed due to unfavorable weather at the landing site.
The astronauts had been conducting research and science experiments during their five-month stay aboard the ISS.
NASA livestreamed the flight aboard the fully-autonomous rocket during the 250-mile journey.
The Falcon 9 rocket successfully separated from the Dragon spacecraft shortly before 11 a.m. EDT last Saturday.
The splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California marks the first time one of NASA's Commercial Crew Program flights lands anywhere other than Florida.
Once recovery is complete, the crew will be flown to Houston, Texas.
Crew-10 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on March 14, using a similar Falcon 9 rocket produced by SpaceX. The four-member crew arrived at the ISS two days later, relieving astronauts aboard the ISS, including two that had been stranded after arriving on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
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