NASA Crew-12 Completes Dragon Spacecraft Training | International Space Station

NASA Crew-12 Completes Dragon Spacecraft Training | International Space Station

European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot, mission specialist of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Mission: "Crew-12 ready to go! We passed our final exams for the Dragon! Yayyyy! This week was our final week of Dragon training . . . which concluded so many hours in Dragon simulators!"

"This week we also had joint sim sessions with Mission Control Houston (MCC-H) and SpaceX Mission Control Center (MCC-X) to make sure that the integrated teams are ready to work together on launch day and throughout the mission!"

"Thanks to the SpaceX teams and NASA's Johnson Space Center teams for preparing us! We’re looking forward to this big adventure!"

Crew-12 will carry NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot of France, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev of Russia 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 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.

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Expedition 74 Crew

Station Commander: Mike Fincke (NASA)

JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Oleg Platonov, Sergey-Kud Sverchkov, Sergei Mikaev

NASA Flight Engineers: Zena Cardman, Chris Williams

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credits: SpaceX, S. Adenot

Release Date: Jan. 25, 2026

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