NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 begins two-week quarantine ahead of Feb. launch window
The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission began a routine two-week quarantine Wednesday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston ahead of their upcoming launch to the International Space Station. The earliest opportunity for Crew-12 to launch is 6 a.m. EST Wednesday, Feb.
11, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with additional opportunities at 5:38 a.m. Feb. 12 and 5:15 a.m. Feb. 13. The crew consists of NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
They are scheduled to travel Friday, Feb. 6, from Houston to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where they will remain in quarantine while conducting prelaunch operations. Crew quarantine, a practice that began during Apollo to reduce preflight illnesses, limits contact with other people and routes most interactions remotely.
Family members and select mission personnel must undergo medical screening and be cleared before interacting with the crew. Before the quarantine period, the team completed a daylong crew equipment interface test on Jan. 12. That exercise included donning spacesuits, entering the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, performing suit leak checks and seat fitting, familiarizing themselves with the spacecraft interior, completing communications checkouts, and listening to the Dragon’s fans and pumps to prepare for sounds they will hear during flight.
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