Crew-12 Astronauts to Detail Microgravity Health Experiments Ahead of California Splashdown
Crew-12’s final press conference highlights practical microgravity medical research with near-term implications for deep-space crews. Experiments target infection treatment, autonomous medical manufacturing, and personalized countermeasures. The data pipeline from station to Artemis planning remains the clearest near-term payoff.
What comes next is a short handover period with Crew-13 followed by undocking; if weather holds, splashdown is expected within ten days of departure. Strengthened evidence would come from peer-reviewed publication of the Crew-12 datasets within 18 months, allowing independent replication of the fluid-generation and blood-flow findings.
NASA: Crew-12 Dragon will splash down off California within 72 hours of undocking once Crew-13 handover completes, weather permitting.
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- [1]Primary Source(https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-spacex-crew-12-to-discuss-station-mission-upcoming-return/)
- [2]Supporting Source(https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/index.html)
- [3]Supporting Source(https://www.nasa.gov/feature/2023/iss-research-supports-artemis)