NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission lifted off at 5:15 a.m. EST from House Launch Complicated 40 on the Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station in Florida.
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European House Company) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, are experiencing 2 g as SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket undergo a fast collection of occasions.
The spacecraft will take about 34 hours to autonomously dock with the house station’s Concord module at 3:15 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, whereas touring 17,000 mph in Earth orbit.
Up subsequent, the 9 Merlin engines on Falcon 9’s first stage will burn by a million kilos of propellant in the course of the subsequent three minutes.
Reside protection of the Crew-12 broadcast is airing on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the company’s YouTube channel. Study find out how to watch NASA content material by a wide range of on-line platforms, together with social media.
Updates on right now’s milestones shall be posted on the mission weblog, @NASAKennedy on X, or NASA Kennedy on Fb.
