Crew-12 Targets Friday Launch as Expedition 74 Keeps Up Tech, Psych Research

Managers continue targeting no earlier than 5:15 a.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 13, for the launch of Crew-12 aboard a SpaceX Dragon to the International Space Station. Astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev remain in Florida ahead of a liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Expedition 74 Flight Engineer Chris Williams has been preparing the orbital outpost for the arrival expected at 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14. Williams spent several days staging a variety of lab hardware, such as tablet computers, and required emergency gear to be transferred inside Dragon shortly after the quartet’s arrival.

He will be on duty Saturday monitoring Dragon’s automated approach and rendezvous from the cupola. Meanwhile on Wednesday, the station trio kept up ongoing microgravity research exploring spacecraft fuel physics and crew psychology, and also focused on cargo transfers and standard lab maintenance.

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