NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman are due to conduct the first spacewalk of 2026 outside the International Space Station. How to watch.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 5:05 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 14, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission.

Artemis II is set to launch during a window between Feb. 6 and Feb. 11. The 10-day mission is NASA’s first manned mission around the moon since Apollo 8 in December 1968. In honor of the historic launch, the Kansas Cosmosphere is planning a watch party.

NASA and SpaceX will both provide livestreams as the Crew-11 astronauts depart the International Space Station today.

On Thursday, a pair of astronauts will venture outside the space station to prepare for the future installation of roll-out solar arrays that will help power its deorbit in 2030.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission safely splashed down early Thursday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.

Four space station Crew 11 fliers splashed down off the Southern California coast at 3:41 a.m. ET, closing out a 167-day stay in space cut short by a medical issue.