Overview
- Liftoff is targeted for no earlier than 6:01 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 11, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- Docking to the space-facing port of the ISS Harmony module is targeted for about 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12.
- The crew comprises NASA’s Jessica Meir (commander) and Jack Hathaway (pilot), ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
- The FAA authorized Falcon 9 to return to flight after reviewing a stage‑2 ignition failure that briefly grounded launches earlier this week.
- Crew-12 will replace Crew-11, which returned a month early during the station’s first medical evacuation, and restore the ISS to its normal seven-person complement.