SPOKANE — Inland Northwest residents can watch U.S. Army colonel and NASA astronaut Anne McClain return to Earth on Saturday, as long as her undocking from the International Space Station is not postponed again.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission is coming to a close this weekend, five months after McClain and company launched to the floating laboratory aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule as part of the ongoing Commercial Crew Program, in which the space agency partners with commercial companies for crew rotations aboard the ISS. Joining McClain were fellow NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov and Takuya Onishi, an astronaut with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Roscosmos is the Russian space agency.

Today, McClain, Ayers, Peskov and Onishi will climb back into th

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