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Overview
- Falcon 9 with the Crew Dragon lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Friday on a roughly 34-hour flight, with docking to the International Space Station expected on February 14.
- The multinational team—commander Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, France’s Sophie Adenot, and Russia’s Andrey Fedyaev—will undertake an eight- to nine-month expedition.
- Their arrival is expected to restore the orbiting laboratory to a seven-person crew after four astronauts returned early in January for medical reasons.
- NASA says existing in-orbit medical procedures remain in place, with no added pre-launch tests or diagnostic hardware after an onboard ultrasound was used during the January incident.
- Planned investigations include generating emergency IV fluid from potable water, AI/AR-guided ultrasound, jugular-vein clot studies, and lunar-landing simulation work tied to Artemis.