Overview
- NASA says Crew-12—Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Sophie Adenot and Andrej Fedjaew—is scheduled to launch Wednesday from Cape Canaveral on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
- The FAA and NASA ended a brief grounding after investigating a recent second-stage anomaly and accepting SpaceX’s preventive measures, allowing crewed missions to proceed.
- A Falcon 9 flew a Starlink mission over the weekend, marking the vehicle’s return to flight ahead of the crew launch.
- The ISS is currently staffed by U.S. astronaut Chris Williams and Russian cosmonauts Sergej Kud-Swertschkow and Sergej Mikajew as they await Crew-12’s arrival.
- Crew-11 left early in January for undisclosed medical reasons, and NASA will livestream Wednesday’s launch and Thursday’s docking.