Quote from: Galacic01 on 01/19/2026 12:11 pmIn my opinionC212 Freedom - Crew-12 C207 Resilience - Vast-1C210 Endurance - AX-5C213 Grace - Crew-13Vast announced today that Haven-1 has been delayed to Q1 2027 so a Dragon may not be assigned for the first crew flight.
In my opinionC212 Freedom - Crew-12 C207 Resilience - Vast-1C210 Endurance - AX-5C213 Grace - Crew-13
Meet @NASA's @SpaceX Crew-12 members Commander @Astro_Jessica and Pilot @Astro_Hathaway, both from NASA, and Mission Specialists @Soph_Astro of @ESA and Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos.
I'm hearing the new date for the launch of Crew 12 is now February 11. It's not clear to me whether NASA will still try to launch Artemis II ahead of this date.
_-_ Diary of an ESA astronaut _-_{Cologne 🇩🇪} Training week 80 bisHundreds of experiments from all over the world will take place during the #εpsilon mission… and I refreshed my know-how on some of them during my last week in Europe before launch… these are just some examples!!!ECHOFINDER: an ultrasound device with augmented reality and built-in artificial intelligence, which will help a non-trained operator find the correct organ and send the right picture directly to a remote doctor. A technology developed for space, which will very soon have direct applications on Earth !RELAX PRO: to study how meditation and relaxation can lower stress levels and induce better sleep in explorers far away from their homes.E4D (Enhanced European Exploration Exercise Device), a new sports machine: its conception and design will be tested by our crew onboard the ISS. In the future, the plan is to use a similar one onboard a lunar station called Gateway, orbiting around the Moon.METAL 3D PRINTER: a prototype which uses 3D printing technology to enable us to create our own tools / spare parts… very useful for future long-duration exploration missions.HEAT TRANSFER HOST 2: an experiment to study evaporation and condensation of liquids in microgravity, with future applications for cooling systems and air conditioning, on Earth!KUBIK: an incubator with a centrifuge insert, serving as a test bed for many biology and chemistry experiments.MATISS-4: a study to monitor and prevent biocontamination of surfaces, and to develop antimicrobial coatings, very useful on Earth too!And so many others not pictured… Many thanks to all the teams, including the EAC VR team!
_-_ Diary of an ESA astronaut _-_{Cologne 🇩🇪} Training week 80My last week in Europe before launch… the next time I’ll come back to Europe will be after landing, end of October 2026 – if all plans go nominal.✔️ On Monday, the week started with 🌳 the “tree planting” ceremony (see previous post), and 🍰 the “cutting the cake” ceremony. Cutting the cake and sharing it with the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) employees was a very beautiful moment where I could express all my gratitude to them. They all work so hard to contribute to this #εpsilon mission or to further space exploration missions. Thank you teams! You’re amazing!🩺 The schedule was really busy throughout the week, and I did a ton of medical measurements which will serve science. The first pic shows that on Monday morning, the day started with 17 tubes of blood drawn… everyday had new medical measurements for another medical study.🧑🚀 I really enjoy meeting researchers from all over the world. They share with me the purposes of the medical studies, the results they already obtained in previous years, and their hopes for future research. 🔬Some examples: ECHOFINDER, RELAX PRO, E4D, IMPRIMANTE 3D METAL, HEAT TRANSFER HOST 2, KUBIK… More on these very soon!✅ Briefings with the EUROCOMs and European flight directors who run the Columbus module from Munich Col-CC (Columbus control center). More on that topic in a future post. They shared the latest news and updates which will be relevant to our expedition increments (74/75).🤩 Last VR session to mentally prepare for working inside (IVA) or outside the ISS (EVA). The engineers and scientists who work in our virtual lab are so talented at developing very efficient training tools!
Crew-12 launch brought forward to 11 February?QuoteI'm hearing the new date for the launch of Crew 12 is now February 11. It's not clear to me whether NASA will still try to launch Artemis II ahead of this date.
Updated January 22https://www.launchphotography.com/Launch_Viewing_Guide.htmlQuoteThe next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the next GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from pad 40 on January 25 at 11:46 p.m. - 12:01 a.m. EST. A Falcon 9 will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on January 28 at 11:00 p.m. - 3:00 a.m. EST. A Falcon 9 will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on January 31 at 6:36-10:36 p.m. EST. A Falcon 9 will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on February 3. A Falcon 9 will launch Crew-12 to the International Space Station from pad 40 on mid-February, 6 a.m. EST [~11:00 UTC on 11 Feb]. The first stage will land back at the Cape about eight minutes after launch.
The next SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the next GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from pad 40 on January 25 at 11:46 p.m. - 12:01 a.m. EST. A Falcon 9 will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on January 28 at 11:00 p.m. - 3:00 a.m. EST. A Falcon 9 will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on January 31 at 6:36-10:36 p.m. EST. A Falcon 9 will launch a Starlink batch from pad 40 on February 3. A Falcon 9 will launch Crew-12 to the International Space Station from pad 40 on mid-February, 6 a.m. EST [~11:00 UTC on 11 Feb]. The first stage will land back at the Cape about eight minutes after launch.
NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Friday, Jan. 30, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.At 11 a.m. EST, mission leadership will discuss final launch and mission preparations in a news conference that will stream on the agency’s YouTube channel.Next, the crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission will participate in a virtual news conference from NASA Johnson crew quarters at 1 p.m., also on the agency’s YouTube channel. Individual streams for each of the events will be available on that page. This is the final media opportunity with Crew-12 before they travel to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch.Crew-12 will carry NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev to the orbiting laboratory. The crew will launch aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The agency is working with SpaceX and its international partners to review options to advance the launch of Crew-12 from its original target date of Sunday, Feb. 15.United States-based media interested in attending in person must contact the NASA Johnson newsroom no later than 5 p.m. CST on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 281-483-5111 or [email protected].Media wishing to join the news conferences by phone must contact the Johnson newsroom by 9:45 a.m. on the day of the event. A copy of NASA’s media accreditation policy is available online.Briefing participants are as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):11 a.m.: Mission Overview News ConferenceKen Bowersox, associate administrator, NASA’s Space Operations Mission DirectorateSteve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA KennedyDana Weigel, manager, International Space Station Program, NASA JohnsonAndreas Mogensen, Human Exploration Group Leader, ESASpaceX representative1 p.m.: Crew News ConferenceJessica Meir, Crew-12 commander, NASAJack Hathaway, Crew-12 pilot, NASASophie Adenot, Crew-12 mission specialist, ESAAndrey Fedyaev, Crew-12 mission specialist, RoscosmosThis will be the second flight to the space station for Meir, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013. The Caribou, Maine, native earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Brown University, a master’s degree in space studies from the International Space University, and a doctorate in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego. On her first spaceflight, Meir spent 205 days as a flight engineer during Expedition 61/62, and she completed the first three all-woman spacewalks with fellow NASA astronaut Christina Koch, totaling 21 hours and 44 minutes outside of the station. Since then, she has served in various roles, including assistant to the chief astronaut for commercial crew (SpaceX), deputy for the Flight Integration Division, and assistant to the chief astronaut for the human landing system.A commander in the United States Navy, Hathaway was selected as part of the 2021 astronaut candidate class. This will be Hathaway’s first spaceflight. The South Windsor, Connecticut, native holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and history from the U.S. Naval Academy and master’s degrees in flight dynamics from Cranfield University and national security and strategic studies from the U.S. Naval War College, respectively. Hathaway also is a graduate of the Empire Test Pilot’s School, Fixed Wing Class 70 in 2011. At the time of his selection, Hathaway was deployed aboard the USS Truman, serving as Strike Fighter Squadron 81’s prospective executive officer. He has accumulated more than 2,500 flight hours in 30 different aircraft, including more than 500 carrier arrested landings and 39 combat missions.The Crew-12 mission will be Adenot’s first spaceflight. Before her selection as an ESA astronaut in 2022, Adenot earned a degree in engineering from ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France, specializing in spacecraft and aircraft flight dynamics. She also earned a master’s degree in human factors engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. After earning her master’s degree, she became a helicopter cockpit design engineer at Airbus Helicopters and later served as a search and rescue pilot at Cazaux Air Base from 2008 to 2012. She then joined the High Authority Transport Squadron in Villacoublay, France, and served as a formation flight leader and mission captain from 2012 to 2017. Between 2019 and 2022, Adenot worked as a helicopter experimental test pilot in Cazaux Flight Test Center with DGA (Direction Générale de l’Armement – the French Defence Procurement Agency). She has logged more than 3,000 hours flying 22 different helicopters.This will be Fedyaev’s second long-duration stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. He graduated from the Krasnodar Military Aviation Institute in 2004, specializing in aircraft operations and air traffic organization, and earned qualifications as a pilot engineer. Prior to his selection as a cosmonaut, he served as deputy commander of an Ilyushin-38 aircraft unit in the Kamchatka Region, logging more than 600 flight hours and achieving the rank of second-class military pilot. Fedyaev was selected for the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center Cosmonaut Corps in 2012 and has served as a test cosmonaut since 2014. In 2023, he flew to the space station as a mission specialist during NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission, spending 186 days in orbit, as an Expedition 69 flight engineer. For his achievements, Fedyaev was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation and received the Yuri Gagarin Medal.For more information about the mission, visit:https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew-end-
Adenot Sophie@Soph_astro·Translated from French#Crew12 We aced our final Dragon exams! Woohoo! This week marked the end of our Dragon training, and therefore a huge number of hours spent in the simulator!We also conducted joint simulations with MCC-H and MCC-X, which confirm that all teams are ready to work together on launch day and throughout the mission.Thanks to the @SpaceX and @NASAjohnson teams who prepared us!See you soon for the next part of this great adventure!📷 Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX@SpaceX·Crew-12 completed training in California this past week. Falcon 9 is targeted to launch Dragon and the crew to the @Space_Station in February
Has an "official" photo of Crew-12 been released yet?Thank you.
International Space Station@Space_Station·The earliest opportunity for @NASA’s @SpaceX Crew-12 launch to the space station is 6 a.m. EST, Feb. 11, from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Next opportunities are 5:38 a.m. Feb. 12 & 5:15 a.m. Feb. 13. NASA continues working toward potential launch windows for two important crewed missions this February: Artemis II and Crew-12. We will make any decisions on the best launch opportunity for each mission closer to flight.
The quartet will fly the Crew Dragon capsule "Grace" to the ISS for a longer-than-normal assignment, lasting nine months instead of the typical six.
Charles Boyer@TheOldManPar@NASA Crew 12 launch windows
