On this picture from video supplied by NASA, a SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying Individuals Meir and Jack Hathaway, France’s Sophie Adenot and Russia’s Andrei Fedyaev, approaches the Worldwide Area Station for docking on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026.
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The 4 members of NASA’S SpaceX Crew-12 mission docked on the Worldwide Area Station on Saturday afternoon.
The crew blasted off earlier than daybreak on Friday morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The Crew-12 mission contains two NASA astronauts, Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, French astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. Throughout their eight-month mission, the crew will conduct scientific analysis to prepare for human exploration beyond earth’s orbit and improve meals manufacturing in area.
“With Crew-12 safely on orbit, America and our worldwide companions as soon as once more demonstrated the professionalism, preparation, and teamwork required for human spaceflight,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stated in an announcement.
The mission replaces the crew from NASA’s Crew-11 mission, which departed the ISS a month forward of schedule in January because of a medical evacuation of one of many crew members. Since then, the area station has been working with a diminished employees of three folks — nicely under it is typical seven-person employees.
Isaacman additionally stated that NASA is concurrently making preparations for the 10-day Artemis II mission, which might ship a crew of four astronauts around the moon. It is the primary crewed mission to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 and is slated to take off as quickly as March.
