Weather conditions improved, allowing for Crew Dragon to undock at 12:05 p.m. Eastern Oct. 14 for a brief trip back to Earth.“We just really couldn’t get comfortable with the winds at landing, so we took it down pretty close and we decided to wave off before we got through depressing the vestibule and using some of the ISS consumables.”The splashdown marks the end of the Crew-4 mission, which started with a Falcon 9 launch from the Kennedy Space Center in the pre-dawn hours April 27, docking with the station less than 16 hours later.The Crew-4 astronauts departed the station nearly eight days after the arrival of another Crew Dragon spacecraft, Endurance, on the Crew-5 mission, delivering American, Japanese and Russian crewmembers to the station.After that, NASA expects to alternate missions with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner assuming that vehicle successfully completes a crewed test flight in early 2023.SpaceX also had six flights under its CCtCap contract, but NASA has twice extended that, adding three missions in February and five in August, bringing the total to 14."