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SpaceX Crew-12 Docks With ISS, Restoring Full Station Staffing

The four-person mission will spend about eight to nine months conducting research in orbit.

Overview

  • Crew-12 includes NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, French ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrej Fedyaev.
  • The crew launched Friday from Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 with a Crew Dragon and arrived roughly 34 hours later.
  • Meir and Fedyaev are on their second ISS flights, while Hathaway and Adenot are making their first.
  • The docking follows NASA’s mid-January early return of Crew 11 for medical reasons, the first such evacuation in ISS operations.
  • NASA has not identified the affected Crew 11 member or the condition, after weeks with only Chris Williams, Sergej Mikaew and Sergej Kud-Swertschkow aboard.