NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Proceeds Toward Launch

NASA and SpaceX teams completed the final major review—the Launch Readiness Review—for the Crew-12 mission and polled “go” to enter the launch countdown, pending weather along the ascent corridor. Liftoff remains targeted for no earlier than 5:15 a.m. EST Friday, Feb.

13, aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Weather at the launch site is 85% favorable, with cumulus clouds the main concern. Teams continue to monitor elevated winds along the Atlantic Coast in Crew-12’s flight path, which prompted earlier shifts in the launch date from Feb.

11. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, commander, and Jack Hathaway, pilot, will fly with ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard Dragon to begin an eight-month crew rotation mission aboard the space station. The four have been in quarantine at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center since arriving at the launch site on Feb.

United States, Cape Canaveral, Florida

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