The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission began their routine two-week quarantine on Wednesday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston ahead of their upcoming launch to the International Space Station.

The Crew Dragon spacecraft, with two Nasa astronauts, a Japanese crewmember, and a Russian cosmonaut aboard, undocked from the station at around 3:30 am IST. It is now heading for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off California's coast at 2:11 pm.

NASA reports that its moon mission is accelerating, with plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2028.